Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 May 1999 10:37:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems |
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On 27-May-99 Jim Mostek wrote: > It depends on how you do (journalling sp??). XFS has an async log so meta > data > operations get clumped into a single log write to disk (for several) ops > (usually). > Most other journal FS' don't do this. In fact, the only one that does > async logging that I'm familiar with is XFS. I saw Stephen's design > doc and he talks about bundling up the meta data operations, too.
The BeOS filesystem aggregates transactions into before writing. I got the impression that pretty much all modern journalling filesystems do this, since the other approach is so slow.
J
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