On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:06:41PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> Also agreed. I haven't run NetBSD's softdep for a long time.

I've stopped using it on my server a long time ago, too. The reason was
mostly that it caused the kernel to hang during system shutdown (see
PR kern/26436).

> If we get a journalled FFS that works, I would be more than happy to see
> softdep go.

Agreed. A well written Journaled Filesystem should provide almost the
same performanc benefits without the risks.

	Kind regards

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