Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:39:17 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Queuing of disk writes |
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> I've seen this on ext3, ext4, and XFS. Reiser3 not so much. I've also > convinced my users to use write-backed cache. They're Enterprise customers and > have loads of money to spend on hardware, such as Warp Cores.
ext3 certainly suffers badly from it, that is known.
> > The ultima answer is probably an SSD of course 8) > Well, that would solve the throughput, but it doesn't solve the blocking!
Best place to go might be linux-fsdevel - especially if you can generate a simulation of the problem workload (ie one that just does the I/O patterns)
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