FC4 kernel performance

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Jun 23 07:30:07 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:46 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Some type of "journalling RAID" would be a possible solution (and
> would also allow for much faster re-syncs on unclean shutdown, as only
> the last written blocks would need updating).

This is why RAID is entirely the wrong answer, and redundancy should be
implemented in the file system itself, instead of being hacked into the
block layer.

This isn't DOS. We don't have to shoe-horn RAID into the INT 13h handler
so that the FAT file system code can cope with it.

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dwmw2




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