HAMMER in real life

Michael Neumann mneumann at ntecs.de
Thu Nov 26 12:35:12 PST 2009


Matthew Dillon schrieb:
>     * I believe that FreeBSD was talking about adopting some of the LFS work,
>       or otherwise implementing log space for UFS.  I don't know what the
>       state of this is but I will say that it's tough to get something like
>       this to work right without a lot of actual plug-pulling tests.
> 
>     Either OpenBSD or NetBSD I believe have a log structured extension to
>     UFS which works.  Not sure which, sorry.

That's NetBSD! They had LFS in the past which was never really ready for
production use. But with NetBSD 5.0 they got WAPBL (Write Ahead Physical
Block Logging), sponsored by Wasabi systems.

Regards,

  Michael





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