Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Yes, before UFS had soft updates, the synchronous nature of UFS made it
> > slower than ext2, but now with soft updates, that performance difference
> > is gone so you have two files systems, ext2 and ufs, similar peformance,
> > but one is crash-safe and the other is not.
>
> Note entirely true. ufs is both crash-safe and quick-rebootable. You
> do need to fsck at some point, but not prior to mounting it. Any
> corrupt blocks are empty, and are easy to avoid.
I am assuming you need to mount the drive as part of the reboot. Of
course you can boot fast with any file system if you don't have to mount
it. :-)
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