Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:37:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:37:31 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:9410 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:37:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:37:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: Alan Cox cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Surely the answer if you want short term write speed and long term balancing > is to use ext3 not ext2 and simply ensure that the relevant stuff goes to > the journal (which will be nicely ordered) first. That will give you some > buffering at least. Alan, the problem is present in ext3 as well as in all other FFS derivatives (well, FreeBSD had tried to deal that stuff this Spring). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/