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SubjectRe: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS?
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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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