Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@RUM.CS.YALE.EDU> | Subject | Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS? | Date | 29 Mar 2000 10:59:38 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> writes: > Maybe I am mixing up oranges and logs, but for me, in certain cases, > a log-based filesystem can be way faster than a normal or > metadata-log filesystem: as data is only appended, you can do
Of course. But the problem is the "in certain cases". Because it other cases it can be a good bit slower because it needs to copy stuff around all the time and because the read-locality tends to be worse.
You win some, you lose some,
Stefan
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