[geeks] Eeeek

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:38, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:05:43PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> > We have a Linux box with 320GB on it. It was taking a while to figure out
> > how to get ReiserFS going (this was a while ago) and people started asking
> > why I didn't have it running yet. When I explained that I could have it
> > running NOW, but if the machine crashed it would take about a day to reboot,
> > they left me alone.
> 
> I still want to take XFS for a spin, but I'm waiting for it to show up in the
> real kernel tree.  I meant to use ext3 when I added an additional swap drive
> to my main workstation, but I ended up being in too much of a rush.  On the
> up side, I should be able to retro upgrade the fs.
> 
> So, what are the equivelent technologies on NetBSD?

NetBSD doesn't have a working journaling filesystem yet, but I think
that they have soft-updates, which are in some way comparable, or
something.  I spent about 4 hours reading white papers before I came to
the conclusion that I can't form a meaningful opinion about which is
better.
	Greg

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