On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 07:49:54AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/19/2013 5:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 3/19/2013 3:24 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > ... > >> Heck, even I was confused at first. Cause the manpage of fsck.ext4 IMHO is > >> not really clear about that topic to say the least. I tested it out for a > >> reason. > > > > I already contacted Ted off list hoping he can point me to the relevant > > kernel documentation, so I don't make such a mistake again with EXT. > > Ok, so here's the skinny on the source of our confusion WRT how/when > EXT4 replays journals, and it's rather interesting. Ted Ts'o explained > the following. > > The EXT4 kernel module does have code to perform journal replay, but it > is rarely executed. The reasons for this are: > > 1. EXT4 journal replay can take a lot of time (whereas XFS is instant) 19 minutes is my current record for XFS journal replay. 2GB log, filled full of inode creates, required about 300,000 IOs to complete recovery..... > 2. EXT4 systems tend to have multiple filesystems, often one per drive > (whereas XFS systems tend to have few filesystems) [Citation needed] Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
