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SubjectRe: filesystem tuning hints?
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:56:12 PDT, joel said:

> I also tested ext2 just out of curiosity, and it thrashed all the others
> by a large margin. Could I be doing something really really dumb here,
> or is this just the cost of journalling?

Journalling costs performance at the price of added I/O.

> Are there any dynamic kernel parameters which could bring any of the
> journalled filesystems performance to a more respectable level?

Dynamic parameters? Probably not. If you *really* care about performance,
you put the journal on a different physical drive (and maybe controller) than
the actual filesystem itself. From 'man mkfs.ext3':

-J journal-options
...
device=external-journal
Attach the filesystem to the journal block device
located on external-journal. The external journal
must already have been created using the command

mke2fs -O journal_dev external-journal

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