--4PJudQiuYY5+cwwi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:07:39PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > It depends very much on the workload. ext3 can often avoid seeks that > ext2 has to do, because it can flush data out sequentially to the > journal rather than having to seek to all the bitmap and inode blocks > when writing out a change to disk. This is especially noticeable with > some synchronised-IO benchmarks, where ext2 has to seek all over the > disk for every IO request, whereas ext3 can just append a bit more to > the journal. It is especially more try in the case of a mail spool where the individual files are frequently deleted before the writeback interval would cause them to actually get written to their real location on disk. --=20 Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 --4PJudQiuYY5+cwwi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8SHDk6W+y3GmZgOgRAhrtAKCgIlctpoo4w7nX+sZKKKJ9nBJ8BACfVmzI gVeiqnm3eOYG1/8zJ59CFMM= =1AF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4PJudQiuYY5+cwwi--
