Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:28:07 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix" |
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Hi,
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:44:04 -0500, tytso@mit.edu said:
> My understanding is that reseirfs suffers from the same VM issues as > ext3; both currently don't coexist well with soft-RAID (i.e. /dev/md), > because of different assumptions about how the buffer cache works, and > what devices like the MD devices are allowed to do.
There are other problems as well: on smaller machines, we don't have any way for the "pinned" buffers associated with transactions to be flushed early in response to memory pressure, for example.
There are a few such VM issues which have to be addressed before we can get rock-solid journaling in the kernel.
--Stephen
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