From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
dave b <db.pub.mail@gmail.com>, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Aidar Kultayev <the.aidar@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>,
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Steven Barrett <damentz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:55:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik1zyrP5DBGC+MmSKF2Eeep3fSu=-8TdOY8BTJj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinYZ2wPeeunFv4Ljm+D9SDLbgzTVmw_P9KQdK16@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You will lose data even with data=ordered. All the data that didn't
>> get logged before the crash is lost anyway.
>
> Linus, are you using with data=writeback?
I used to, indeed. But since I upgrade computers fairly regularly, and
all the distros have moved towards ext4, I'm no longer using ext3 at
all.
But yes, to me ext3 was totally unusable with rotational media and
"data=ordered". Not just bad. Total crap. Whenever the mail client
wanted to write something out, the whole machine basically stopped.
Of course, part of that was that long ago I used reiserfs back when
SuSE had it as the default. So I didn't think that the hickups were
"normal" like a lot of people probably do. I knew better. So it was
"bad latency, and I know it's the filesystem that is total crap".
> Those of us, who did (without UPS), will never do it again.
Before or after the change to make renaming on top of old files do the
IO flushing?
That made a big difference for some rather common cases.
Linus
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2010-10-28 6:09 ` 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 6:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 9:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 11:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 11:33 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 11:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-28 12:18 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-28 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 13:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 17:01 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-28 17:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-29 14:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-29 15:33 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-30 9:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-30 13:02 ` Aidar Kultayev
2010-10-30 19:06 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-31 2:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-31 17:49 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-11-02 3:10 ` Shaohua Li
2010-11-02 11:47 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-02 13:12 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-04 16:05 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-04 23:35 ` Steven Barrett
2010-11-04 23:44 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-04 23:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-05 1:43 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-05 12:48 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2010-11-06 14:10 ` dave b
2010-11-06 15:12 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-07 6:06 ` dave b
2010-11-07 12:08 ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-07 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 1:32 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 2:01 ` dave b
2010-11-10 8:08 ` Evgeniy Ivanov
2010-11-10 8:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 14:22 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:20 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-10 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 19:09 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 14:33 ` Theodore Tso
2010-11-10 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 15:00 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-10 23:36 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-10 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 16:46 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-10 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-11-10 17:10 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-10 18:55 ` Mark Lord
2010-11-10 18:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-11-10 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-06 19:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-07 17:16 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-09 19:47 ` Evgeniy Ivanov
2010-11-09 20:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-09 21:00 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-31 1:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-31 1:51 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 1:09 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-11-02 1:20 ` Wu Fengguang
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