gjournal....

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Sun Mar 30 11:57:26 PDT 2008


* Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> [080330 09:17] wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:06:17AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > If you're using a database then it shouldn't matter what meta data
> > provider you use "all that much" with the exception of temporary
> > tables.
> > 
> > Basically, SU and gjournal both provide for meta data consistency,
> > something that a database rarely needs as it rarely creates/deletes
> > files often.
> > 
> 
> I'm looking at this more from a performance standpoint.
> 
> Is there a performance advantage to using gjournal over a "normal" UFS/UFS2
> filesystem with softupdates?

I think that SU will be faster, but that's just a semi-educated guess.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein


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