On Mar 30, 2007 10:43 +0200, Johann Lombardi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:20:50AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: > > While it may be to late for the purposes of your OLS paper, one thing > > that doesn't seem to be getting much attention is the performance of a > > file system while doing many meta-data operations or throughput testing > > during heavy journal log activity. > > Back in 2005, Alex sent a patch to monitor journal activity through procfs: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=113538565128617&w=2 > > We have been using this patch for more than 1 year and it is very useful > for investigating performance issues. > Does anybody know why this patch hasn't found its way into the mainline? > Maybe it could be merged in jbd2? Yes, we use this functionality failry often, so having it in jbd2 would be quite useful. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html