On Sep 10, 2008 18:05 +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > I have not tested this, but since we are putting about 16 different > journals on this one ssd, I would assume that the loss through > seeking between the journals would be pretty bad, and again bring > back that inter-filesystem-dependency we were trying to loose with > this measure. The cost of putting the journals on 16 separate, relatively small disk devices would probably be comparable to the cost of the SSD and not have a single point of failure. The journal does mostly linear IO, so performance is probably equal or better. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users