Hi, On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:33:38PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:59:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The other (complimentary) option is to simply hack mke2fs so that it permits > > larger journals. In e2fsprogs's misc/util.c:figure_journal_size(): > > Note though that interactivity may suffer with larger journals; when > it finally *does* come time to flush the journal, the system may > become very non-responsive until the journal is actually completely > flushed. Andrew has patches to mitigate that somewhat by providing latency guarantees separately for reads and writes. --Stephen
