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FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready

Posted by Nik on from the coming-full-circle dept.

ocipio writes: "The FreeBSD team announced that 4.4-RELEASE is available for download. There are a whole bunch of changes and notes. Please be sure to use a mirror." Those installing for the first time will no doubt find chapter two of the Handbook invaluable.

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  1. journalling vs. softupdates by elbuddha · · Score: 5, Informative

    BSD's FFS with softupdates could be considered to obviate the need for journalling.

    Read Journalling Versus Soft Updates for a good Usenix 2000 paper comparing both approaches, which concludes that:

    Soft Updates holds the promise of providing stronger reliability guarantees than journaling, with faster recovery and superior performance

    and that

    journaling alone is not sufficient to "solve" the meta-data update problem.

    Both methods achieve the same goals by different means.