Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:18:19 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS? |
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On 29 Mar 2000, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Maybe I am mixing up oranges and logs, but for me, in certain cases, > a log-based filesystem can be way faster than a normal or > metadata-log filesystem: as data is only appended, you can do > the append sequentially and in very big chunks (say, 4 MBytes > sequential I/Os). You will get very good performance from > single device and hardware (or even software) RAID0. And > you don't need to think about seek times when writing.
Speed increases up to 10x were touted as one of the reasons to switch your VMS system's storage from Files-11B to Spiralog.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" -- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00
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