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> They made their FFS 64-bit.

What does this mean? 64-bit inode numbers? 64-bit timestamps? Something else?

> Also they removed softupdates,

Shame in a way, I remember reading McKusick's paper and being impressed. But I guess it's the antithesis of batching, which turned out to be more important for performance than avoiding the extra I/O due to journalling. Also the implementation was AFAIU fearsomely subtle and tricky.

parent jabl 2 years ago

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