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From: Manoj Joseph <manoj.joseph@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:24:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46326309.3050104@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271246550.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> It's true that this is a "feature" of ext3 with data=ordered (the default),
>> but I suspect the same thing is now true in reiserfs too.
> 
> Oh, well.. Journalling sucks.

Go back to ext2? ;)

> 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).

Ah, "copy on write"! ZFS (Sun) and WAFL (NetApp) does this. Don't know 
about WAFL, but ZFS does logging too.

-Manoj

-- 
Manoj Joseph
http://kerneljunkie.blogspot.com/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1177660767.6567.41.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
2007-04-27  8:33 ` [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) Andrew Morton
2007-04-27  9:23   ` Mike Galbraith
2007-04-27 10:17   ` Mike Galbraith
2007-04-27 11:59   ` Marat Buharov
2007-04-27 12:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-27 13:50       ` Mark Lord
2007-04-27 12:39     ` Manoj Joseph
2007-04-27 15:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 19:31       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-27 19:44         ` Mike Galbraith
2007-04-27 19:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 20:05           ` Hua Zhong
2007-04-27 20:12           ` Bill Huey
2007-04-28  5:37             ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-04-28  5:45               ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-04-28 21:57               ` Bill Huey
2007-04-28 22:38                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-04-27 20:29           ` Gabriel C
2007-04-27 20:54           ` Manoj Joseph [this message]
2007-04-28  8:45           ` Matthias Andree
2007-04-27 22:18         ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-03 17:38           ` Alex Tomas
2007-05-03 23:54             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-04  6:18               ` Alex Tomas
2007-05-04  6:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-04  6:57                   ` Alex Tomas
2007-05-04  7:18                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-04  7:39                       ` Alex Tomas
2007-05-04  8:02                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-16 18:20                           ` Alex Tomas
2007-08-16 18:46                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-17  2:24                               ` Alex Tomas
2007-08-17  6:52                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-17  8:36                                   ` Alex Tomas
2007-08-17  9:02                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-17 18:42                                       ` Alex Tomas
2007-04-28  8:44       ` Matthias Andree
2007-04-28 20:46   ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-04-28 21:12     ` Lee Revell
2007-04-29 20:49       ` Mark Lord

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