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Re: Background fsck


From: esmith <esmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:12:46 -0500

Matthew Dillon wrote:
The problem is that while it is possible to make softupdates algorithmically robust in regards to recovery, softupdates itself
is such a complex beast that bugs have and will still be found which
create unexpected corruption on the disk during a failure.


Soft updates are a crutch for a file system that was not designed to accommodate that type of behavior. The complexity added to the file system for the sake of one feature of having a shorter boot time under special circumstances is unreasonable.

Journaling has the potential to be, from the outset, a more flexible and robust design. That is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the primary goals of DragonFly.









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