From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272440AbTGZIQt (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:16:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272441AbTGZIQt (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:16:49 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44433 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272440AbTGZIQs (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:16:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:33:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Hans Reiser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) Message-Id: <20030726013301.6164e6e4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F1EF7DB.2010805@namesys.com> References: <3F1EF7DB.2010805@namesys.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > > Please look at http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks/v4marks.html It says "but since most users use ext3 with only meta-data journaling" which isn't really correct. ext3's metadata-only journalling mode is writeback mode. Most people in fact use ext3's ordered mode, which provides the same data consistency guarantees on recovery as data journalling. Please compare against the ext3 in -mm. It has tweaks which aren't yet merged, but which will be submitted soon.