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On 10/28/06, fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I'm not sure about the journaling, but the trick is that it caches |
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> writes very aggressively -- we're talking dozens of MB at a time, and it |
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> often holds onto those writes for not just minutes but even hours. |
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Just want to point out that XFS offers a few tuning parameters to |
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control how long it will cache metadata before writing it out. |
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Reducing these parameters "encourages" xfs to write associated file |
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data more frequently as well. |
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See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt. |
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-Richard |
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