Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: ext2 question | Date | 20 May 1999 17:39:18 -0400 |
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> But the log-wrap is not the only problem, the other performance problem of > a real logfs is that we are not going to always read _data_ (not only > metadata) in the same order we write things to disk... And we are going to > read _far_ more frequently than writes...
But you might argue that the inherently dynamic layout of a log-structured filesystem should make it easier to reorganize the disk on-the-fly specifically for read access.
Stefan
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