Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:37:23 -0600 (MDT)

Alan writes:
> > Why the 2.4.5-ac series doesn't have merges from Linus 2.4.6-pre anymore?
>
> Because right now I dont consider the 2.4.6 page cache ext2 stuff safe
> enough to merge. I'm letting someone else be the sucide squad.. so far it
> looks like it is indeed fine but I want to wait and see more yet

It has been working relatively well for me in benchmarks (I'm actually
using 2.4 ext3 for my real filesystems, with backups of course ;-).
Performance of the page-cache directories up for directory operations,
but strangely file read performance is down. Anyone else noticed this?

I saw this repeatedly using the reiserfs mongo benchmark.

Cheers, Andreas

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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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