OpenBSD UFS did have "soft updates" which were some kind of alternative to journaling.
I believe that these were recently removed. Perhaps they don't play well with SMP.
OpenBSD UFS did have "soft updates" which were some kind of alternative to journaling.
I believe that these were recently removed. Perhaps they don't play well with SMP.
McKusick, who wrote the original BSD FFS, also later came up with SU:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_updates