Re: Performance of ext3 on large systems

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 10:29:31 EST


> > Can we just say that ext3's talents lie elsewhere?
> >
> > I've got some stuff which helps a bit, but nobody has had the time
> > to implement the significant overhaul which is needed here.
> >
> > noatime would help.
>
> ext3 doesn't implement noatime!? Hurg...

Actually, it makes sense in a way - noatime only speeds up reads, not
writes, (access time is always updated on a write), whereas a
journaled filesystem is presumably intended to be tuned for write
performance. So, for it's intended usage, not implementing noatime
shouldn't be a huge problem, although it would be useful.

John.
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