Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:45:42 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh, well.. Journalling sucks. > > 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).
Only that you need direct-overwrite support to be able to safely trash data you no longer need...
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