From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 70121] Increasing efficiency of full data journaling Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:48:52 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:53328 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754512AbaCEVs4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:48:56 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDF72026D for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 21:48:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugzilla2.web.kernel.org (bugzilla2.web.kernel.org [172.20.200.52]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183E820256 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 21:48:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70121 --- Comment #3 from Phillip Susi --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/6/2014 5:38 AM, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > Full data journaling provides the ability that it is guaranteed > that a file will never be saved visible for the user in a damaged > state (except a hardware defect appears afterwards). But this has > the disadvantage that the writing througput is ~halfed as all files > are written 2 times. It does no such thing. To do that, a new kernel api is needed to allow the application to specify where transactions start/stop. Data journaling only makes sense for an external journal on an ssd or similar: then fsync() and friends can return as soon as the data hits the ssd and rely on it being safely migrated to the hdd in the future. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTF4sKAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwBpsH/35GAm2iqyNudw0JjJdceYqd PC+47MwQoJE2kcGLNCPVZLhRdHg+fWF6JKewnGAJXz6jsOIeblWyqyL03x8cCDMB 107ssZzXy8OllhczGp1oMR4q7bM0RiIwDjqD8qPJxYwTOHcoIp7RbyK0ER++LcE6 lISrSCyzyqpgo9o2oRAlAdP8/aioaOyiJbGpIhfH42Je+zG5k3mGwaCIuVvBR+Ef wm6rOqApxv6JwZy0s12alq6MUFMzE9qb9WTzLiDtPybSFzvUgt5brePi74HdJZHs JYjtUqk43q8wYCWcDcEjKb8q6/h/HGP296ZhM9CoXjq+HYqqWWXbl9T5F5+Nl6k= =nADc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.