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Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release

Posted by timothy on from the good-things-come-from-certain-clashes dept.

microbee writes "Following the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, several famous kernel hackers have raised complaints upon what seems to be a long-time performance problem related to ext3. Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andi Keen, Theodore Ts'o, and of course Linus Torvalds have all participated. It may shed some light on the status of Linux filesystems. For example, Linus Torvalds commented on the corruption caused by writeback mode, calling it 'idiotic.'"

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  1. Slow performance by rootnl · · Score: 4, Funny

    The server is taking too long to respond; please wait a minute or 2 and try again.

    Mmmh, must be a big problem

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    1. Re:Slow performance by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, they had to switch the lkml server to ext3 because posts kept getting killed and cut into pieces with their old filesystem and the admins just kept saying "Well, they must've gone to Russia."

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    2. Re:Slow performance by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You sure that wasn't an ad for Viagra targeted specifically to the over-the-hill nerd community?

      What would a nerd need Viagra for ?^)

      Longer uptime of course

  2. lkml.org server is slashdotted. by javilon · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is what I get from http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/24/460:

    "The server is taking too long to respond; please wait a minute or 2 and try again."

    Considering that there is only one comment on this slashdot thread, that means that most people will comment without actually reading TFA.

    Like me... :-)

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    1. Re:lkml.org server is slashdotted. by FernandoTorres · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well this is just my meta comment. I'll be writing my real comment later...

  3. Let me guess... by Puls4r · · Score: 5, Funny

    The server is running linux.

    1. Re:Let me guess... by UnRDJ · · Score: 5, Funny

      too much karma for your tastes?

  4. Re:OK, then... *WHO* is the official ext3 "moron"? by red_dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    they may very well BE morons, but at least give them a chance to respond before being pilloried by Linus

    He's following Ext3 writeback semantics. You'll have to wait for a patch to fix his behaviour.

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  5. Re:OK, then... *WHO* is the official ext3 "moron"? by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, we urgently need some kind of killer FS for Linux...

    Oh, wait...

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  6. Saving grace by coryking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not saying the name is Torvalds attempt at saving grace

    Is the person responsible going to pull a classic political step-down where they resign "in order to spend more time with their family"?

    Maybe it was Hans Reiser? Sure the guy is locked up in San Quentin, but nobody knows how to hack a filesystem to bits better than Reiser. Bada ba ching! Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all night.

  7. Fix it by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Linus should just fixit instead of whining about it. It's open source, dammit.

  8. Re:OK, then... *WHO* is the official ext3 "moron"? by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the metadata was written first, then only ext3 was actually created.

    A filesystem that writes the metadata before the actual data, is a "Duke Nukem Forever" Filesystem.

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