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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




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