Re: Removing softdep

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:11:57AM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > So, I propose to remove softdep when we import the journalling  
> > code, and to
> > go forward with the focus on improving journalling.
>
> I agree with this in principle, but as an admin running file systems  
> with
> softdeps now (netbsd-4 mostly, and never experienced any problems with
> softdeps) this migration would force me to dump, newfs and restore  
> serious
> amounts of data, so would be a huge pain.

Presumably, there would be a migration path that did not require a  
newfs step.

> Martin

-- thorpej