On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:31:19PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:20:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:49:54PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > >How can we mont it read-only right now ?
> > > 
> > > Right now we have ordered MD writes.  With a journal, you generally  
> > > don't do that
> > 
> > I think I explicitely said that we need to keep ordered MD writes for this
> 
> Uhm, the idea of a journal is that you no longer have to order MD writes. 
> As I understand it, that is the _point_. To retain ordering when we have a 
> journal is defeating the purpose.

Some more though on this: I don't think there can be much performance
difference between a async journaled FFS and a softdeps FFS. And I suspect
it may be easier to add journaling to a softdep FFS, as softdep is a central
point where we have all the metadata writes.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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