Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose whenFS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

[Matthias Andree]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Oh, well.. Journalling sucks.
> 
> I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell 
> everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just 
> better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new 
> blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions 
> are stable on disk).

Only that you need direct-overwrite support to be able to safely trash
data you no longer need...

-- 
Matthias Andree
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