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Re: softupdates for ext2fs? (was: fstab - `defaults' and `sync')



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On a side note, there is such thing as `softupdates' developed in
> FreeBSD.  Apparently, it allows synced disk I/O comparable in speed to
> memory-based (async). Is anything like that going to be implemented
> for ext2fs?

It's my understanding that softupdates provide the same functionality as a
journaling file system ala ext3 and current betas of RieserFS.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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