On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:50:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, well.. Journalling sucks. > > I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell > everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just > better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new > blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions > are stable on disk). > > There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I > forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably > accepted ;). That sounds a whole lot like NetApp's WAFL file system and is heavily patented. bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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