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This is what makes RPM slow as well

This is what makes RPM slow as well

Posted Jun 1, 2008 22:19 UTC (Sun) by jlokier (subscriber, #52227)
In reply to: This is what makes RPM slow as well by lmb
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Trees and cascades of multiple journals go naturally together.  See btrfs, logfs, ubifs, zfs,
reiser4...  After a while it stops looking like a journal.  But all the tricks to make a high
performance and reliable journal with async barriers can apply to a tree as well.


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