Re: ext2 question

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 27 May 1999 06:24:57 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Tue, 18 May 1999 20:47:37 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@suse.de> said:

> The logging filesystem it's not died in my mind. But the more I think at
> it, the more I am worried about the amound of extra work the backing
> storage has to do when the fs reach the wrap.

Such "cleaning" is the bane of LFSes. Or one of them, at least: read
performance fragmentation is another.

Have a browse around http://www.netapps.com/technology/ for a _really_
good alternative. Netapp's write-anywhere filesystem allows the same
write streaming performance that LFS gives, without restricting the
allocater in the way that LFS does.

--Stephen

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