[PERFORM] UFS 2: soft updates vs. gjournal (AKA: Choosing a filesystem 2.)

2008-09-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi again, Should I use gjournal on FreeBSD 7? Or just soft updates? Here is my opinion: I suspect that gjournal would be much slower than soft updates. Also gjournal is relatively new code, not very well tested. But gjournal is better when the system crashes. Although I have heard that

Re: [PERFORM] UFS 2: soft updates vs. gjournal (AKA: Choosing a filesystem 2.)

2008-09-24 Thread Claus Guttesen
Should I use gjournal on FreeBSD 7? Or just soft updates? Here is my opinion: I suspect that gjournal would be much slower than soft updates. Also gjournal is relatively new code, not very well tested. But gjournal is better when the system crashes. Although I have heard that sometimes

Re: [PERFORM] UFS 2: soft updates vs. gjournal (AKA: Choosing a filesystem 2.)

2008-09-24 Thread Artis Caune
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my opinion: I suspect that gjournal would be much slower than soft updates. Also gjournal is relatively new code, not very well tested. In some cases it's much faster than SU, in other a bit slower. :) gjournal is

Re: [PERFORM] UFS 2: soft updates vs. gjournal (AKA: Choosing a filesystem 2.)

2008-09-24 Thread Axel Rau
Am 24.09.2008 um 12:18 schrieb Laszlo Nagy: Should I use gjournal on FreeBSD 7? Or just soft updates? I'm using gjournal for 5 weeks now on my production server. There are 4 journaled filesystems on a raid controller with BBU. pg uses 23GB out of 1.6TB. I can't see any performance impact or