In Message <Pine.SGI.4.21.0002032133130.180069-100000@buphy.bu.edu> ,
   Brian Gregor <bgregor@buphy.bu.edu> wrote:

=>
=>IBM has released its journaling file system, JFS, under
=>the GPL.  There is an e-mail drive at Daemon News to
=>convince them to also release it under the IBM Public
=>License so that it may be used with BSD.
=>
=>http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=574
=>
=>Does anyone know how JFS compares with LFS in NetBSD?

   JFS is more like FFS than LFS. The only thing that JFS logs is
metadata writes; the basic disk structure is FFS-like. I would
expect softdeps to provide a similar performance boost, with JFS
possibly preserving more metadata after a system crash.

					Gary D. Duzan