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SubjectRe: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)
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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Matthias Andree
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