> Surely the answer if you want short term write speed and long term balancing
> is to use ext3 not ext2 and simply ensure that the relevant stuff goes to
> the journal (which will be nicely ordered) first. That will give you some
> buffering at least.
Alan, the problem is present in ext3 as well as in all other FFS derivatives
(well, FreeBSD had tried to deal that stuff this Spring).
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