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
> > 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 w
> > 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
> [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 MT
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,
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, b
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 seriously
