Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:49:09 +0200 | From | Ragnar Kjørstad <> | Subject | Re: (fwd) Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" |
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:02:07AM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > There is more to coherency and preserving fs structure than "don't cache > > Sure. So what? What's wrong with a O_DIRDIRECT flag that makes all > opens retrace the path from the root fs _on disk_ instead of from the > directory cache?
Did you read Antons post about this?
> I suggest that changing FS structure is an operation that is so > relatively rare in the projected environment (in which gigabytes of > /data/ are streaming through every second) that you can make them as > expensive as you like and nobody will notice.
Why do you want a filesystem if you're not going to use any filesystem operations? If all you want to do is to split your shared device into multipe (static) logical units use a logical volume manager.
If you _do_ need a filesystem, use something like gfs. Have you looked at it at all?
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