Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:34:18 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:48402 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:34:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 23:33:52 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Alex Khripin Cc: Subject: Re: Soft updates for 2.5? In-Reply-To: <200106301041.f5UAfCVM012803@morgoth.mit.edu> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/