Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS?

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 11:47:31 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:08:47AM -0600, Michael Gerdts wrote:

> It depends on how the full journalling is done. If the journal is allowed
> to exist on a separate device from the rest of the file system, you should
> be able to preserve performance. Solid state disks would probably be the
> optimum media for a such a journal.

You still need to write most things twice, so you just made main memory and
PCI bus performance the bottleneck.

  Ralf

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