Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:24:57 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Question on FFS support |
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Hi,
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:02:15 -0400, "Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com> said:
> I decided to look into FreeBSD when I heard that it had a journaling > filesystem with the additional plus of large file support.
That's a common misconception: FreeBSD has no journaling. It has soft updates, which is very different indeed. Soft updates make the filesystem safe to run after an unclean shutdown by preserving write dependencies, but they do not make the filesystem consistent at all times. You still need to salvage leaked disk blocks, for example.
ext2+journaling is coming. There have been a couple of releases on linux-fsdevel@vger, the last of which --- yesterday's --- is now getting to the point where it is genuinely usable, although there is still lots to be done. I'm expecting a fully functional release by Christmas, but I'm already using it for all the filesystems on my laptop.
--Stephen
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