Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4
- To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:23:37 +0100
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(Dropping bug report)
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > Hence the fact that all file system developers, whether they were
> > btrfs developers or XFS developers or ext4 developers, made the joke
> > at the file system developers summit two years ago, that what the
> > application programmers really wanted was O_PONY, with the magic pixie
> > dust. Unfortunately:
>
> I think a lot would be happy with O_ATOMIC.
Please don't hijack/spam a bugreport for random complaints about the design
of file systems. Ted's answer has been very valuable to solve the problem
we have and I really dislike when constructive threads turn into
bikeshedding over file system design.
Thanks for your comprehension. Feel free to go discuss your issues on
upstream mailing lists.
Cheers,
--
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