Grr! <rant>

[Mark Szidik]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Don Flynn wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:
>
> Not that I think its good form to run up the score while AIX is losing so
> badly, but...
>
> > Here's the score:
> >
> >                         AIX     FreeBSD
> > Has a JFS               yes     no
>
>      This might be a point of contention.  Have you checked out
> softupdates? From what I can tell on the *BSD lists I'm on, softupdates
> are fairly stable on FreeBSD.  I know they've been around for awhile and
> I've heard of some people running them on production machines.  If you
> haven't heard of softupdates its basically another way to accomplish what
> journaling does.  I guess in some ways its better and the author has some
> pointers to some in depth info about softupdates on his web page
> (mckusick.com), but I think you need to be a usenix member to read them.
>

If anyone is interested I have the Kirk McKusick paper.  I actually went
to the presentation that McKusick gave on soft updates at the 1999
USENIX conference.  Can't say that I understood most of it.

I have his paper "Journaling versus Soft Updates" from the 2000 UNENIX
conference too.

In fact I have all of the papers presented at the last two years of
UNSENIX conferences.  There is some really cool stuff in these papers.

The "best paper" for the Freenix track last year was titled "An
Operating System in Java for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Microcontroller".

I'll bring the papers to the next GLLUG meeting if anyone is interested.

-Mark