Subject: Re: Journaling for FFS
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/02/2006 22:18:27
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:13:13PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:10:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:56:25PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:16:29PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > Depends on how you do it. If you go for a physical block journal, it's the 
> > > same for FFS1 and FFS2. A logical journal (which I dislike, but wouldn't 
> > > block if it showed up as a complete thing) will be different. Well, 
> > > journal replay will care.
> > 
> > Yes, but even in this case it shouldn't be a big issue.
> > Probably less than adding quota support to FFF2 :)
> 
> True. :-)
> 
> Though if we do add quota support, there are some details we should look 
> at that came up in previous ffs discussions.

Not only details, the quota system needs some work. It's annoying to
have to run quotacheck even after a clean reboot. This should be integrated
with fsck.
But we're disgressing :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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