Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps a document would be in order describing/detailing all the details such
as this about soft updates, all in one place. What I know I have mostly
gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain
specifics. Is there such
Ladies and Gents,
The lack of a journalling file system for FreeBSD has been discussed
over and over on the mailing lists. I have read and understood all the
advocacy for softupdates and background fsck. Softupdates gives great
performance benefits. Background fsck is useful, but with
Hello,
I had to build a storage system this week with a capacity of 1.6TB.
Regrettfully I decided to use Linux with XFS as the thought of waiting
for fsck to complete in the event of a problem makes me wince. I
experimented with FreeBSD, using two 800GB partitions and things like
that, but
Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Problems with softupdates]
Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is on
disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't break
things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is preserved, but
[Problems with softupdates]
Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is
on disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't
break things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is
preserved, but it does break things like MTA:s that
Is anyone remotely interested in this?
Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use
because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;)
Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the
kernel - I'd be
Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal
use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux
;)
Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that
into the kernel - I'd be happy to see a reiserfs option as well. If