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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!informatik.uni-koblenz.de!ralf From: ralf@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Baechle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD Filesystems Date: 2 Aug 1995 16:25:05 GMT Organization: Uni Koblenz, Germany. Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vo8t1$5r1i@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <1995Jul26.123455.28242@lssec.bt.co.uk> <MICHAELV.95Jul29005359@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3ve9jk$11b8@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <MICHAELV.95Jul30182230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3vjcve$mah@wolfe.wimsey.com> Reply-To: ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de NNTP-Posting-Host: ozzy.uni-koblenz.de In article <3vjcve$mah@wolfe.wimsey.com>, curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: |> >This has nothing to do with the filesystem. NetBSD (and I believe |> >FreeBSD) supports a flag that will let you mount the filesystem |> >asynchronously (wrt metadata writes). However, it is not the default, |> >and most unix-seasoned people consider it just asking for trouble. Oh, well, that depends what experiences one made. I never really nuked a filesystem unrecoverable except in one case - but WhatereverFS doesn't help against faulty hardware. |> It is asking for trouble. If you really need fast writes on lots |> of small files (i.e., for a news filesystem or something like that) |> the proper thing is to use the log filesystem or something similar. |> |> Is LFS working in NetBSD? What experience made people actually using logging filesystems about the performance and reliability in real live? Ralf