Hi, all.

I've recently encountered Kirk McKusick's softupdates stuff, and I'm curious
if we're going to use it (or a journaling filesystem, or something equivalent)
in NetBSD. It seems like an awfully neat way to do disk writes, although I
haven't dug through it enough to understand it fully. (I'm still ploughing
through "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System, and
I have yet to be completely comfortable with everything presented in it, so
while I'd *like* to do the work of adding it to NetBSD myself, I'm simply
not there yet. Soon, I hope. A note from the person who added softupdates
to OpenBSD said that the port took them all of fifteen minutes. It can't be
all that bad.)

Later...

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