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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. 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?

  2. 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. 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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  4. 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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