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Re: Ridiculous idea: Cache as ramdisk?


To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:28:05 +0100

Matthew Dillon wrote:

:Journalling file systems seem to be rather optimized for recovery, vs
:the impression I get when I hear the word "journalling" - I think of
:something more like CVS, where you can get any older version of a file
:merely by requesting a different tag.  Such a "write once" filesystem
:would be very nice to use, I think.
:
:Anyway... back to your regularly scheduled BSD forking...
:
:-Chris (in Vancouver, if you care)

    There are major advantages to being able to access a filesystem
    as of some date in the past.  For example, it makes 'undelete' work
    very precisely.  Another huge advantage to a properly journaled
    filesystem is that one can run a continuously streaming 'incremental
    backup' of the filesystem as well as use such a stream to maintain a
    fully independant off-site copy of the filesystem in near real time.


Look no further, turn yourselves to The Elephant File System, ``a file system that never forgets''. Also, it seems to have been implemented on a FreeBSD 2.2 VFS implementation. 8-)

	I cannot find lots of information on this, but the following
	URL's should help:

	[1] - http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/santry99deciding.html
	[2] - Google ``The Elephant File System''

Regards,

--
Hiten Pandya
hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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