Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:37:31 +0200 | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems |
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On Tue 1999-06-01 (02:28), David S. Miller wrote:
> I'm afraid your concerns about kernel code size eating into buffer > cache or user memory are slightly out of date. These days it seems > damn near impossible to buy anything with less than 32 MB memory! > > There are third world countries where Linux is used heavily where a > 486 with 16MB of ram is a "big computer". These concerns are by no > means out of date at all.
Of course you are right. But I guess you don't need a journalling FS on such machines, because the hard disks will be small, too, so fsck time isn't such a big issue.
Of course, if ext2fs is dropped from the standard kernel distribution in favour of XFS, there might be some problem on lowest-end machines---but, given the installation base of ext2fs, I don't think that will ever happen.
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