On 27/12/99 Arcady Genkin wrote:
On a side note, there is such thing as `softupdates' developed in FreeBSD. Apparently, it allows synced disk I/O comparable in speed to memory-based (async). Is anything like that going to be implemented for ext2fs?
I thought i read on BSD docs (this was OpenBSD) that softupdates are available but they discourage using it because it works like linux async and will leave the fs in a inconsistent state and you should prepare to rebuild it if you ever have a power failure.. I could be thinking of something else though...
if you read the docs in /usr/local/src/linux/Documentation on ext2 there is a note that sync should be faster then it is and hopefully will be at some point. currently its slower then bsd ffs (which is pretty slow...)
Ethan
