Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Soft updates for 2.5? | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Date | 01 Jul 2001 22:58:04 -0400 |
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While on the topic of reslilent, high-performance filesystems, what ever became of "Tux", Daniel Philip's mythical WAFL-type filesystem?
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
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