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--On January 22, 2006 1:42:38 AM -0500 John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > So I've been researching, because I thought this "Soft Update" thing > that BSD uses was some weird freak-ass way to totally corrupt a file > system if the power drops. Seems I was wrong; it's actually just the > opposite, an alternate solution to journaling. So let's compare notes. I hate to say it...but in my experience, this has been exactly the case with soft updates and FreeBSD 4 up to 4.11 pre releases. Whenever something untoward would happen, the filesystem almost always lost files and/or data, usually just files though. In practice it's never really worked too well for me. It also still requires a full fsck on boot, which means long boot times for recovery on large filesystems. - 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/ | |||||||||
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