Reiserfs does not do journaling, you can read more about it at http://devlinux.com/namesys
At some time in the future we will do fastboot, but not until after we ship what we have.
Note that fastboot does not require journaling....
Hans
Al Brass wrote:
> Dear Allanah,
>
> Yes, I think a journaling file system for Linux would be a VERY good idea -
> personally, I'm fed up of having a disk check (fsck) every time I get a crash
> (ie, when I haven't shutdown cleanly - that's me, Mr dirty shutdown, always
> locking up in X, and who knows what... You just CAN'T get the staff these days).
>
> Seriously... IMHO, Linux has alot to learn from NT in this respect. Hopefully,
> someone, somewhere (in Summer time...) will have the time and where-with-all to develop something similar to NTFS for Linux.
>
> Until then, I'll wait for Leonard's driver for the Mylex RAID cards (and where's
> the romance in that, I ask you?).
>
> Happy Hacking. Al.
>
> P.S. Your personal web site is unusual to me - is it customary to be so forth-
> right on-line where you exist? Perhaps so, but your mentioning the VIC-20
> brought back memories.... Plus ca change, plus la meme, non?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allanah Myles [SMTP:dossy@panoptic.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 10:19 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Increasing limit on SCSI hard drives
>
> On 1998.07.30, Jauder Ho <jauderho@transmeta.com> wrote:
> > get them some 18gb drives :) we had a machine here that had
> > something like 60+gb running on linux software RAID for a while. It worked
> > well till the server crashed every so often. then it would spend half the
> > day fscking. so we are moving to a couple of PMD raids but for your home
> > machine, a couple of 18 giggers should be more than enough :) 18 * 16 =
> > 288GB that's a hefty amount of space.
>
> Speaking of spending the day fscking your disks - has anyone considered
> developing jfs or any journaling fs for Linux (to avoid just this
> massive fscking issue)? I haven't read up on what reiserfs promises
> or is supposed to deliver, but I haven't heard much hoo-hah on the
> linux-kernel list with regards to any journaling fs support.
>
> -Dossy
>
> --
> URL: http://www.panoptic.com/~dossy -< BORK BORK! >- E-MAIL: dossy@panoptic.com
> Now I'm who I want to be, where I want to be, doing what I've always said I
> would and yet I feel I haven't won at all... (Aug 9, 95: Goodbye, JG.)
> "You should change your .sig; not that the world revolves around me." -s. sadie
>
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