On Jul 11, 2007 00:30 -0500, 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? I don't have a URL, but if you search for "IRON ext3" and go to Remzi's site it is called "Analysis and Evolution of Journaling File Systems". 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