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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
