linux-lvm.redhat.com archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] snapshots of busy ext2 file system corrupt
Date: Tue Feb 26 14:58:02 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2621690000.1014757084@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2bsecdouv.fsf@isnogud.escape.de>


On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 08:28:40 PM +0100 Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> wrote:

> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> writes:
> 
>> For ext2, the best we could do would probably be a hack based on 
>> locking the super.  As far as I know, nobody is planning on this,
> 
> :-(
> 
>> especially given how easy it is to go from ext2->ext3.
> 
> Some performance tests I made with ext2, ext3, and reiserfs convinced
> me to stay with ext2.  ext3 was significantly slower than ext2 on some
> operations (and reiserfs even worse than that).

You trade speed for safety sometimes, but you can lower the performance
hit by mounting ext3 with -o data=writeback, and help both filesystems
by playing with bdflush values (increment the metadata timeout up from 5
seconds).

Other tuning depends on your app.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-26 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-26  7:55 [linux-lvm] snapshots of busy ext2 file system corrupt Urs Thuermann
2002-02-26 10:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-26 11:40   ` Chris Mason
2002-02-26 13:30     ` Urs Thuermann
2002-02-26 14:58       ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-02-26 15:27         ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-26 16:32           ` Marc MERLIN
2002-02-26 17:21             ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-26 13:25   ` Urs Thuermann
2002-02-27  3:01 ` Anselm Kruis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-27 14:24 Stephenson, Dale
2002-02-27 14:43 ` Chris Mason
2002-03-04  2:46   ` Anselm Kruis
2002-03-04  2:51 ` Anselm Kruis

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=2621690000.1014757084@tiny \
    --to=mason@suse.com \
    --cc=linux-lvm@sistina.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).