>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:12:27 -0600
>Jan Depner eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:00, Florian Schmidt wrote:
>> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:02:28 -0800 (PST)
>> > R Parker rtp405@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm hesitant about returning to ext2 because I've had
>> > > fsck blow up in my face more than once...guess that's
>> > > why I rsync to a big IDE HD. I do expect ext2
>> > > performance to be perfectly acceptable.
>> >
>> > what's wrong with ext3?
>> >
>> The hournal is not with the file. This causes problems when the
>> file is written to.
>
>what kind of problems? You mean, because the journal is on another part
>of the disk, the head has to move a lot while writing? (writing data -
>updating journal - writing data - updating journal...)
Yes. Take a look at the filesystem tests section on this page. Mark Knecht did
a few tests and the results are very interesting.
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html
Jan
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>Palimm Palimm!
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