Off-Topic Question

Eduardo Tongson propolice at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 09:51:53 PST 2005


> (a) softdep is complex. *very* complex.
> (b) softdep doesn't solve the problems of fast reboots after crash
> (c) softdep doesn't allow replaying changes for off-site synchronisation
> 
> I consider softdep a useful concept for a filesystem, it can really
> help for those filesystems we can't add a journaling later on top.
> But having native journaling support can be much better.
> 
> Joerg
> 

So that's the problem with softdep.
Can you pls similarly point out the flaws of background fsck


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