Messages in this thread | | | From | Jim Mostek <> | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems | Date | Fri, 28 May 1999 09:58:45 -0500 (CDT) |
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>feature for video: guaranteed bandwidth. Also, journalling slows down >reading, but speeds up writing, which is again important for >video. So, as long as ext3 is not there, I'll be very happy about XFS.
How does journalling slow down reading? The only time XFS needs to create a transaction is when changing meta-data (like a create, file extend, remove, ...). XFS doesn't do transactions for time updates. Do other FSs? XFS doesn't do transactions on writting if the file is already allocated.
Jim
> >Andreas > >-- >Reality is two's complement. See: >ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/hakmem/hacks.html#item154 > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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