Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Andrew Scott
On 12 Sep 2000, at 18:08, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > I made the comment because I remember back when the discussion was current > on linux kernel. I thought Jeff Merkey's, message was to the point. Para- > phrasing from memory, it was something to the effect that novell had > tried many el

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
You're welcome. :-) Jeff Hans Reiser wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another >

(reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Rogier Wolff
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another > > optimization we learned the hard way by trying

(reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Hans Reiser
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another > optimization we learned the hard way by trying numerous app

Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another optimization we learned the hard way by trying numerous approaches to the problem. Jeff Ed

Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Geez, A simple comment on IRC can _really_ generate lots of feedback. (There were over 50 messages about this in my queue - did not help that some were duplicated three times ). I made the comment because I remember back when the discussion was current on linux kernel. I thought Jeff Merk