Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:24:33 +0530 | From | Manoj Joseph <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> It's true that this is a "feature" of ext3 with data=ordered (the default), >> but I suspect the same thing is now true in reiserfs too. > > Oh, well.. Journalling sucks.
Go back to ext2? ;)
> I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell > everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just > better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new > blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions > are stable on disk).
Ah, "copy on write"! ZFS (Sun) and WAFL (NetApp) does this. Don't know about WAFL, but ZFS does logging too.
-Manoj
-- Manoj Joseph http://kerneljunkie.blogspot.com/
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