On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote: > On 2/20/07, Valerie Henson <val_henson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Google. (GoogleFS runs on top of ext2.) > > It's surprising to know that... I guess they reply on GoogleFS's own > replication and checksumming for consistency. Yep, they just want a local file system with ultrafast on-line performance. They don't care about recovery time particularly because of the GoogleFS replication (although I heard rumors they have some fast fsck scheme, maybe resembling the dirty bit stuff I did last year). -VAL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
