[PLUG] when not to use a journaling FS

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Sat Jan 10 17:14:01 UTC 2004


On Saturday 10 January 2004 5:01 pm, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:16:37PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > I've been poring over notes and googling my head. learned a lot 
> > of cool stuff, anyway...
> 
> Whooaaa man, like, I didn't know I knew that! Far out dude!

Yeah, I installed the Google Toolbar. Makes all the difference. But the 
pigeons get a little annoying, and stinky.

> 
> > It had nothing to do with performance, it was something that does
> > not work at all.
> 
> I doubt that's ever the case. As a filesystem, they present the exact
> same semantics to userspace. There're only compelling reasons not
> to. Such as for /boot--it checks so fast and is typically so small, a
> journal is a waste of time, performance- and disk-space-
> wise. Filesystems where you depend on atime but have socket files
> (such as /tmp) can make the system essentially 'ping' the hard drive
> continuously. And other examples you can cook up.

OK, I think you and Marvin answered it. Thanks!
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