Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755559Ab1CYXdN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:33:13 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:63470 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095Ab1CYXdM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:33:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=dS/IKdEyGQA3ORzxNY4WdzshvIFSBwdl5fPfsD8g3OOHkUDU5UK6gbjzKPmcW6MBf0 iY32nSWSdkRV24gKr3PYENIup2Re7VxLhn1pzHWeK8nNFnC9E3r7ab6qw96L45e4PRfn bi43u9jfrxBAKiOXv7ORok+Us/UsWPqI3lqs0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:33:11 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Ext3: Why journal is better than ordered when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time From: Jidong Xiao To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 21 Hi, I see many literatures mentioned this, but I have never seen any one explains it in detail.(Although this link exposed the original story: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/0107.1/0364.html) "Journal mode: This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperform all others mode." Since this is counter-intuitive, I believe many people are not aware about the root cause. Can any one kindly explain it so as to make it more clear? Thank you! Regards Jidong -- 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/