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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Michael Marxmeier <mike@marxmeier.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, CMA <cma@mclink.it>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: e2fs performance as function of block size
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:11:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001124131116.C10362@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13yNlM-0005Q3-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3A1C487C.30BDFE9F@marxmeier.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A1C487C.30BDFE9F@marxmeier.com>; from mike@marxmeier.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:28:12PM +0100

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:28:12PM +0100, Michael Marxmeier wrote:
> 
> If the files get somewhat bigger (eg. > 1G) having a bigger block
> size also greatly reduces the ext2 overhead. Especially fsync() 
> used to be really bad on big file but choosing a bigger block
> size changed a lot.

2.4 fsync should be better, but still dependent on file size.  The
O_SYNC patches I posted the other day give you an fsync which is
independent of file size.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-11-24 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-21 19:46 e2fs performance as function of block size CMA
2000-11-21 17:30 ` Reto Baettig
2000-11-21 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22  0:06   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-22  0:27     ` Brian Pomerantz
2000-11-22  0:27     ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22  0:37       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-22 22:28       ` Michael Marxmeier
2000-11-24 13:11         ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]

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