Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:06:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans for Logged/Journaled UFS Message-ID: <240049.46806.qm@web113517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3612709F-15CA-4A59-86B1-2674BAA2936D@gmail.com> References: <712903.15604.qm@web113517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <3612709F-15CA-4A59-86B1-2674BAA2936D@gmail.com>
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>
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > What's wrong with gjournal(8) ?
> >
...
>
> gjournal(8) journals everything, that is all data and metadata are journaled.
> Which can help with random writes, but essentially cuts linear write throughput
> in half.
>
> Regards,
> Niki Denev
I recall ext3fs also journals everything by default and still is very popular.
I am asking because I've been playing a bit with Aditya's ext2fs (mostly UFS1)
and one of the ideas there is adding gjournal support instead of starting from
scratch.
Pedro..
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