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Optimizing stable pages

Optimizing stable pages

Posted Dec 6, 2012 22:38 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Optimizing stable pages by dlang
Parent article: Optimizing stable pages

ext4 can be used without journaling (you need to use tune2fs to set it up). Google added this feature for these use-cases specifically.

We've benchmarked it on Amazon EC2 machines. ext4 without journaling is faster than ext2. There are really no more use cases for ext2/3.


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