linux-ext4 - Re: Why does journal mode outperforms all other modes when reading and writing data at the same time?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20130528161418.GD27920@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 18:14:18 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	jingguo yao <yaojingguo@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does journal mode outperforms all other modes when reading
 and writing data at the same time?

On Tue 28-05-13 22:39:18, jingguo yao wrote:
> Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt has the following sentence:
> 
>   This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and
>   written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all others
>   modes.
> 
> And the following link talks about it in more details. Can anybody give
> the reason?
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html#4
  Not sure why exactly data=journal was faster in that workload. But
generally data=journal is known to help if you have shortlived files which
are then written only to the journal and deleted before they are copied to
the final location on disk. Also it may help by penalizing the writer so
that readers have better chance to do their work...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html