On 01 Jul 2001 23:33:52 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Alex Khripin wrote:
>
> > There was a discussion in October, 2000, about the Granger and
> > McKusick paper on soft updates for the BSD FFS. Reading the thread,
> > nothing conclusive seemed to come out of it.
>
> What you want is ext3.
>
> It is a journaling version of ext2, which basically
> means you get all the advantages of soft updates and
> a bit more (due to the atomicity that journaled
> transactions can give you).
>
> It should be superior to softupdates in both the
> consistency area and the performance area (due to
> the fact that stuff is in the journal, you have
> more freedom to reorder the writes to the "main"
> part of the filesystem).
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
> --
> Virtual memory is like a game you can't win;
> However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
>
> http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
>
> Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy)
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Michael Rothwell rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/