The idea has not died and some NAS/file server vendors have already been doing this for some time. (I am not sure but is WAFS the same thing?) > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:51 PM > To: Andreas Dilger > Cc: Marat Buharov; Andrew Morton; Mike Galbraith; LKML; Jens Axboe; > linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alex Tomas > Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose > when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) > > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > It's true that this is a "feature" of ext3 with data=ordered (the > default), > > but I suspect the same thing is now true in reiserfs too. > > Oh, well.. Journalling sucks. > > I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell > everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just > better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new > blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new > versions > are stable on disk). > > There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I > forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was > presumably > accepted ;). > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - 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
