Thanks! I've been using ext3 on about 5 machines for the past week or so
and it's been great so far. Haven't had any problems except for that
weird thing creating that journal on the root filesystem and it was
getting confused witht he ramdisk or whatever, but making a boot disk and
mounting fixed that.
We're really itching to use ext3 in a production environment. Can you
give any clues on how things are going? I'm not asking for time frames by
any means but rather like, yes, things are coming along nicely or whatever
clues you can give.
Also, do you know of anyone creating an anaconda install that will take
advantage of ext3? Assuming I would know anaconda which I don't, it would
seem easy enough to create journal files just based on the size of
partition. That would be swell.
Thanks
-jeremy
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:54:20PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > Note that you should not make the journals so large that they are a
> > major fraction of your RAM, as you will not gain anything by this.
> > A few megabytes is fine, 1024 disk blocks is the minimum.
>
> Yep. The main drawbacks to a large journal is that (a) they can pin a
> lot of buffers in memory at once, and (b) they take longer to recover.
> The only advantage of a large journal is that it gives the filesystem
> more flexibility in writing things back to the main disk, but it's not
> a large effect unless you have a very heavy write load.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
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