Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-07 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:12 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > >> > Can you elaborate a little? Which filesystems have been problematic? >> > Which filesystems are you more confident in? >> >> Well, more or less *all* of them, on AMD-64/Linux. >> >> The "p

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:12 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > > Can you elaborate a little? Which filesystems have been problematic? > > Which filesystems are you more confident in? > > Well, more or less *all* of them, on AMD-64/Linux. > > The "pulling the fibrechannel cable" test blew them al

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:55 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: >> >> > Do you see an advantage in using LFS for PostgreSQL? >> >> >> >> Hey guys - I think the original poster only meant to suggest that it >> >> was *interest

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:55 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: > >> > Do you see an advantage in using LFS for PostgreSQL? > >> > >> Hey guys - I think the original poster only meant to suggest that it > >> was *interesting*... :-) > >> > > > > I see, my mistake.

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Davis) writes: > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: >> > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: >> > > Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first tim

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: > > > Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first time > > > I've found as many as 1 interesting

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-05 Thread mark
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: > > Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first time > > I've found as many as 1 interesting article in it in a while, and > > there were 3 things I found worthw

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:24 -0400, Chris Browne wrote: > Recently seen in ACM Operating Systems Review (this is the first time > I've found as many as 1 interesting article in it in a while, and > there were 3 things I found worthwhile...): > > NTT (of the recent "NTT Power Hour") have created a n

Re: [HACKERS] New Linux Filesystem: NILFS

2006-09-05 Thread Douglas McNaught
Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NetBSD used to have a LFS; has that gone anywhere? Or been > essentially dropped? My reading over the last few years has indicated that LFSs tend to suffer bad performance degradation as data and metadata for a given file get scattered all over the disk