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From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>
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Diego Calleja wrote:
> And FreeBSD is implementing journaling for UFS and getting rid of 
> softupdates [1]. While this not proves that softupdates is "a bad idea",
> i think this proves why the added sofupdates complexity doesn't seem
> to pay off in the real world. 

You read the message wrong: We're not getting rid of softupdates.
-- Suleiman