From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 11 16:54: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D35F14E90 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 16:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-12.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.12]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA21135; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:53:59 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08385; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:47:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199912120047.SAA08385@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brett Glass Cc: David Scheidt , Jay Nelson , Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? In-reply-to: Message from Brett Glass of "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:26:07 MST." <4.2.0.58.19991211131141.046bc880@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:47:16 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass writes: > I sometimes long for the days of ESDI, where the host could control > EVERYTHING about the way the drive was read and written. (I did > some experiments which involved positioning the head on a blank track > when a write was expected, then writing the data to the very next > sector that came along while simultaneously updating an intention FIFO > for the metadata on a different spindle. The metadata itself was updated > later, so the intention log kept things from getting out of sync > due to power loss. You could pull the plug on that machine when the > disks were grinding away and never lose a thing.) How similar is that to the log partition in SGI's XFS? There was no restriction as to what spindle the log filesystem was placed. Quite to the contrary, it was indicated using a separate drive on a separate SCSI bus would help performance. XFS for Linux was to be released by now. I haven't been paying attention. Was it? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message