linux-kernel - Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

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Message-Id: <E1HhWnt-0003ku-1S@n2o.xs4all.nl>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:12:29 +0200
From:	"Miquel van Smoorenburg" <mikevs@...all.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS
 is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

In article <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271246550.9964@...dy.linux-foundation.org> you write:
>I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come along and tell 
>everybody that this whole journal-logging is stupid, and that it's just 
>better to not ever re-write blocks on disk, but instead write to new 
>blocks with version numbers (and not re-use old blocks until new versions 
>are stable on disk).
>
>There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I 
>forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably 
>accepted ;).

If you mean tux2, it died because of patent issues:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html

Mike.
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