NVCache for journal

Posted Mar 25, 2007 2:20 UTC (Sun) by sweikart (guest, #4276)
In reply to: NVCache for journal by dlang
Parent article: The 2007 Linux Storage and File Systems Workshop

> first, every write on the system would have to go through the
> flash, so longest life access pattern or not, it may still have
> problems.

Actually, for most of us journal users, only the metadata writes
go into the journal.

> ... is that the most efficient method to record an atime update
> in a journal?

You raise a good point. As a system administrator, I don't mount
with noatime, because atime is too useful. But, atime is not so
critical that I need it to be journaled; so, I'd love to mount
nojournaledatime.

-scott