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Increase the maximum size of the journaled soft-updates journal.

Description

Increase the maximum size of the journaled soft-updates journal.

The size of the journaled soft-updates journal should be big enough
to hold two minutes of filesystem metadata-update activity. The
maximum size of the soft updates journal was set in the 1990s. At
the time it was assummed that disk arrays would top out at 16 drives
and disk writes per drive would top out at 500 per second. Today's
I/O subsystems are considerably bigger and faster than those limits.
Thus this delta removes the hard upper limit and lets tunefs(8) and
newfs(8) set the upper bound based on the size of the filesystem and
its cylinder groups.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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Provenance
mckusickAuthored on Oct 21 2022, 6:00 PM
Parents
rG0929a153fc5c: Add a description of soft updates journaling to newfs(8).
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