Juan Piernas Canovas <[email protected]> writes:
[playing devil's advocate here]
> If the data and meta-data devices of DualFS can be on different disks,
> DualFS is able to READ and WRITE data and meta-data blocks in
> PARALLEL.
XFS can do this too using its real time volumes (which don't contain
any metadata). It can also have a separate log.
Also many storage subsystems have some internal parallelism
in writing (e.g. a RAID can write on different disks in parallel for
a single partition) so i'm not sure your distinction is that useful.
If you stripe two disks with a standard fs versus use one of them
as metadata volume and the other as data volume with dualfs i would
expect the striped variant usually be faster because it will give
parallelism not only to data versus metadata, but also to all data
versus other data.
Also I would expect your design to be slow for metadata read intensive
workloads. E.g. have you tried to boot a root partition with dual fs?
That's a very important IO benchmark for desktop Linux systems.
-Andi
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