Filesystem overhead
Andrew W. Gaunt
quantum at lucent.com
Wed Jul 30 08:35:16 EDT 2003
Very cool, that was revealing. Perhaps this discussion
can evolve into how journalling (e.g. ext3, etc.) works
and why it is good/bad. Anybody?
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>Hello world!
>
> Okay, I have satisfied my curiosity in this matter.
>
> Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com>, who replied to me off-list quickly after my
>original post, was correct in that the overhead I was seeing is due to
>indirect blocks. Credit also to Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org>, for
>providing very nice empirical evidence (and saving me the trouble of
>producing it).
>.
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