Re: soft update vs journaling?

[Michael Loftis]

--On January 22, 2006 1:42:38 AM -0500 John Richard Moser 
<nigelenki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> So I've been researching, because I thought this "Soft Update" thing
> that BSD uses was some weird freak-ass way to totally corrupt a file
> system if the power drops.  Seems I was wrong; it's actually just the
> opposite, an alternate solution to journaling.  So let's compare notes.

I hate to say it...but in my experience, this has been exactly the case 
with soft updates and FreeBSD 4 up to 4.11 pre releases.

Whenever something untoward would happen, the filesystem almost always lost 
files and/or data, usually just files though.  In practice it's never 
really worked too well for me.  It also still requires a full fsck on boot, 
which means long boot times for recovery on large filesystems.
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