Large File System?

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 18:51:43 UTC 2006


On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling
> file system as I would use it on every box.
>
> <snip>



Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of view they perform
better than a traditional journaling FS (do a google search for the original
usenix papers on these).

I also find they speed up I/O quite alot, esp for fast changing filesystems
like mail spools.


--
martin


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