From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:39:08 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1611lE-00086H-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111052132360.27563-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> from "Alexander Viro" at Nov 05, 2001 10:02:35 PM
> > So I still claim that we should look for short-time profit, and then try
> > to fix up the problems longer term. With, if required, some kind of
> > rebalancing.
>
> Whatever heuristics we use, it _must_ catch fast-growth scenario. No
> arguments on that. The question being, what will minimize the problems
> for other cases.
Surely the answer if you want short term write speed and long term balancing
is to use ext3 not ext2 and simply ensure that the relevant stuff goes to
the journal (which will be nicely ordered) first. That will give you some
buffering at least.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-05 2:13 disk throughput Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 3:20 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-05 3:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 3:32 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mike Fedyk
2001-11-05 3:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 4:39 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-05 7:06 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-05 7:14 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 7:26 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-05 7:14 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-05 7:18 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-05 7:18 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-05 9:14 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-05 9:20 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-05 5:54 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-11-05 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 12:28 ` Matthias Andree
2001-11-05 14:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 22:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-05 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-08 15:28 ` Constantin Loizides
2001-11-05 23:14 ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-06 10:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-06 16:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2001-11-08 15:24 ` Constantin Loizides
2001-11-08 16:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2001-11-09 6:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 8:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2001-11-06 21:45 ` Stephen Tweedie
2001-11-05 20:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-05 20:28 ` m
2001-11-05 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-05 23:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 1:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 2:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 3:02 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 8:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-06 8:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 8:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-06 3:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 4:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 4:21 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 5:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-06 5:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-06 7:34 ` Mike Castle
2001-11-06 7:10 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-11-09 22:35 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-06 1:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-06 9:16 ` Wojtek Pilorz
2001-11-06 9:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-08 12:51 ` Pavel Machek
2001-11-06 21:48 ` Stephen Tweedie
2001-11-06 23:17 ` ext2/ialloc.c cleanup Alexander Viro
2001-11-07 19:34 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2001-11-07 20:02 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-08 2:06 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-08 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-08 22:16 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-08 22:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-08 23:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-09 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 6:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-09 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-09 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 9:45 ` [Ext2-devel] disk throughput Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-05 9:58 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-05 8:47 ` Jan Kara
2001-11-05 8:50 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mike Fedyk
2001-11-05 9:01 ` Jan Kara
2001-11-05 12:23 ` Matthias Andree
2001-11-05 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-05 23:41 ` Matthias Andree
2001-11-12 6:04 [Ext2-devel] " Yan, Noah
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