Re: ext3

2001-12-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:06, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > With a journaling system, the stability of the fs is granted. > > ...once the data is committed to the journal. > > > But I will type that in again. If the fs dies, I can't rewrite it from > > scratch. Of course, if the data I write is important

Re: ext3

2001-12-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:06, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > With a journaling system, the stability of the fs is granted. > > ...once the data is committed to the journal. > > > But I will type that in again. If the fs dies, I can't rewrite it from > > scratch. Of course, if the data I write is important

Re: ext3

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Nagy Gabor wrote: > On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling >> filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase >> reliability at the cost of performance, the other decreases >> reliability

Re: ext3

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Nagy Gabor wrote: > On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling >> filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase >> reliability at the cost of performance, the other decreases >> reliabilit

Re: ext3

2001-12-10 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote: > OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling > filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase > reliability at the cost of performance, the other decreases reliability > in return for greater performance.[1] Actua

Re: ext3

2001-12-10 Thread Nagy Gabor
On 01-Dec-10 10:40, Daniel Pittman wrote: > OTOH, there is a little cognitive dissonance in having a journaling > filesystem and keeping data in memory longer: one is to increase > reliability at the cost of performance, the other decreases reliability > in return for greater performance.[1] Actu

Re: ext3

2001-12-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive >> parking and all that power saving goodness? > > It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes >

Re: ext3

2001-12-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >> does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive >> parking and all that power saving goodness? > > It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes

Re: ext3

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive > parking and all that power saving goodness? It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes to disk every so often (the frequency with which

Re: ext3

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > does ext3 work with notebooks in that it will still allow for drive > parking and all that power saving goodness? It'll work just fine but it'll keep the disk spinning since it writes to disk every so often (the frequency with which