Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:08:47 -0600 | From | Michael Gerdts <> | 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 Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 08:00:16AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > There are different levels of journaling. Most FS journaling only journals the metadata. > Both ext3 (in current versions) and reiserfs do this. At some point the reiserfs team may > add options to mkfs to allow full journaling. This would hurt perf but may be necessary > if you are using the FS as a DB.
It depends on how the full journalling is done. If the journal is allowed to exist on a separate device from the rest of the file system, you should be able to preserve performance. Solid state disks would probably be the optimum media for a such a journal.
Mike
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