OpenBSD & FIle Systems!!!

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Thu Dec 20 16:32:03 PST 2001


> Ok, I have decided I disagree with the OBSD team about Journaling File
> Systems. Theo says he doesn't need a journaling FS because it decreases
> performance and the current OBSD FS can recover from any failure with
> FSCK. Well after having to FSCK my 80GB drive a few times becuase of
> some testing I was doing, I have removed OBSD and installed Mandrake
> with ReiserFS. I love everything about OBSD except SMP (which is
> coming) and Journaling FS. Disk drives are just getting Bigger and
> FSCKing already takes too damn long.
>
> Now I need to spend some quality time securing my Mandrake box!!
>
> Atleast my firewall doesn't need a large harddrive, so it can stay
> OpenBSD!
>
> "Linux is for people who hate Windows. BSD is for
> people that love unix."

What about FreeBSD with soft updates?  Isn't that supposed to have the
benefits of journaling, without the performance loss?



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