Kernel developers squabble over Ext3 and Ext4

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 27, 2009 1:49 PM EDT
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A number of senior kernel developers, including Linus Torvalds, Ted Ts'o, Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar, have been squabbling over the sense or otherwise of journaling and delayed allocation in Ext3 and Ext4. The trigger for the discussion was a response from Jesper Krogh to Torvalds' announcement of kernel version 2.6.29, in which he described massive delays in writing out the file system cache on Ext3 file systems despite fast RAID arrays on computers with lots of RAM.

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