> As for background FSCK, DragonFly is currently
> in development of adding in journaling support and is just a few
> months away from completion. The background fsck method has many
> fundamental flaws hence the reason for development of a different
> method. Our jorunaling work will allow the system an even greater
> degree of flexibility as you will able to do things such as real-time
> remote mirrored filesystems.
Can you point me to the necessity of adding journaling to UFS? I thought
Softdeps haven been a comparable solution to the same problem journaling
addresses. Both's performance penaltys over async metadata writes seem
to happen in the same universe.
....tom