Valerie Henson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:09:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:10 -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am working on reducing the average time spent on fscking ext2 file
> > > systems. My initial take on the problem is to avoid fscking when the
> >
> > Just curious, why are you teaching ext2 same tricks that are in ext3 ?
> > Is there a reason behind improving ext2 ? Are there any benefits
> > of not using ext3 instead ?
>
> ext2 is simpler and faster than ext3 in many cases. This is sort of
> cheating; ext2 is simpler and faster because it makes no effort to
> maintain on-disk consistency and can skip annoying things like, oh,
> reserving space in the journal. I am looking for ways to make ext2
> cheat even more.
>
But it might be feasible to knock up an ext3-- in which all the journal
operations are stubbed out.
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