On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 08:00:16AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> There are different levels of journaling. Most FS journaling only journals the metadata.
> Both ext3 (in current versions) and reiserfs do this. At some point the reiserfs team may
> add options to mkfs to allow full journaling. This would hurt perf but may be necessary
> if you are using the FS as a DB.
It depends on how the full journalling is done. If the journal is allowed
to exist on a separate device from the rest of the file system, you should
be able to preserve performance. Solid state disks would probably be the
optimum media for a such a journal.
Mike
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