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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: jbd2 inside a device mapper module
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:06:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081226180642.GO9871@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081226161708.GC4127@blitiri.com.ar>

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:17:08PM -0200, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> 
> At this moment I'm trying to keep it simple, so I plan to batch two for
> each sector written to the device: one for the metadata and one for the
> data.
> 

I think I can pretty much guarantee that your performance will be so
horrible that it won't be worth using.

> > Yes, this is necessary because in a production system you need to be
> > able to identify the external journal by UUID, and the ext2/3/4
> > superblock makes it easy to add a label, UUID, et. al.  It also
> > significantly lowers the chance that an external journal will get
> > misidentified as some other filesystem based on the data stored in the
> > journal.
> 
> Yes, it makes sense. I've reserved the first sector for that purpose.

Why not just use the ext3/4 external journal format?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-26 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-24 21:10 jbd2 inside a device mapper module Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-24 22:38 ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-24 23:49 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-25 14:35   ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-25 15:52     ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-26  0:00       ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-26  3:37         ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-26 16:17           ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-26 18:06             ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-12-27  3:00               ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-27 19:29                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-29 21:30                   ` Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-27 20:01     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-29  6:20       ` Shyam_Iyer
2008-12-29 21:05         ` [dm-devel] " Alberto Bertogli
2008-12-30  6:55           ` Alex Tomas
2008-12-30 13:51             ` Alberto Bertogli

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