Messages in this thread | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:12:29 +0200 |
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In article <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271246550.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org> you write: >I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell >everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just >better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new >blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions >are stable on disk). > >There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I >forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably >accepted ;).
If you mean tux2, it died because of patent issues:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html
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