Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS?

From: Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 13:18:19 EST


On 29 Mar 2000, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Maybe I am mixing up oranges and logs, but for me, in certain cases,
> a log-based filesystem can be way faster than a normal or
> metadata-log filesystem: as data is only appended, you can do
> the append sequentially and in very big chunks (say, 4 MBytes
> sequential I/Os). You will get very good performance from
> single device and hardware (or even software) RAID0. And
> you don't need to think about seek times when writing.

Speed increases up to 10x were touted as one of the reasons to switch your
VMS system's storage from Files-11B to Spiralog.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
"Where's the kaboom?  There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
	 -- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00

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