Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:47:31 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | 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 09:08:47AM -0600, Michael Gerdts wrote:
> 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.
You still need to write most things twice, so you just made main memory and PCI bus performance the bottleneck.
Ralf
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