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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@lazybastard.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Juan Piernas Canovas <piernas@ditec.um.es>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	sfaibish <sfaibish@emc.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:11:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070217151108.GA301@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D642A4.5010009@tmr.com>

On Fri, 16 February 2007 18:47:48 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> Actually I am interested in the common case, where the machine is not 
> out of space, or memory, or CPU, but when it is appropriately sized to 
> the workload. Not that I lack interest in corner cases, but the "running 
> flat out" case doesn't reflect case where there's enough hardware, now 
> the o/s needs to use it well.

There is one detail about this specific corner case you may be missing.
Most log-structured filesystems don't just drop in performance - they
can run into a deadlock and the only recovery from this is the lovely
backup-mkfs-restore procedure.

If it was just performance, I would agree with you.

Jörn

-- 
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
-- B. Franklin

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-17 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <op.tnkdlbgsrwwil4@brcsmondepl2c.corp.emc.com>
2007-02-14 21:10 ` sfaibish
2007-02-14 21:57   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-15 18:38     ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-15 20:09       ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-15 22:59         ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-16  9:13           ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-16 11:05             ` Benny Amorsen
2007-02-16 23:47             ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-17 15:11               ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-02-17 18:10                 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-17 18:36                   ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-17 20:47                     ` Sorin Faibish
2007-02-18  5:59                       ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-18 12:46                         ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-19 23:57                         ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-20  0:10                           ` Bron Gondwana
2007-02-20  0:30                           ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-21  4:36                             ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-21 12:37                               ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-21 18:31                                 ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-21 19:25                                   ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-22  4:30                                     ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-22 16:25                                       ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-22 19:57                                         ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-23 13:26                                           ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-24 22:35                                             ` Sorin Faibish
2007-02-25  2:41                                             ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-25 12:01                                               ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-26  3:48                                                 ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-20 20:43                           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-15 20:38       ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-15 19:46         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-16  1:43           ` sfaibish
2007-02-15 21:09         ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-15 23:57           ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-16  4:57             ` Juan Piernas Canovas
2007-02-26 11:49   ` Yakov Lerner
2007-02-26 13:08     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-02-26 13:24     ` Sorin Faibish

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