Jose R. Santos wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:12:14 -0600 > Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > >> You might also want to test out placement of the journal in the middle >> of the filesystem, the U. Wisconsin folks tested this in one of their >> papers and showed some noticable improvements. That isn't exactly >> related, but it is a relatively simple tweak to mke2fs/tune2fs to give >> it an allocation goal of group_desc[s_groups_count / 2].bg_inode_table >> (to put it past inode table in middle group). > > Make sense. Do you have a link to the paper? filesystem shrinking would need to be fixed to handle this too, right... -Eric - 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