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Russell Coker wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday 27 January 2008 22:21, Neil Brown <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:neilb@suse.de"><neilb@suse.de></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday January 27, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au">russell@coker.com.au</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00921.html">http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00921.html</a>
Are they regarded as a stable feature? If so I'd like to see
distributions supporting them by default. I've started a discussion in
Debian on this topic, see the above URL for details.
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<pre wrap="">Yes, it is regarded as stable.
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Thanks for that information.
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<pre wrap="">However it can be expected to reduce write throughput. A reduction of
several percent would not be surprising, and depending in workload it
could probably be much higher.
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It seems to me that losing a few percent of performance all the time is better
than a dramatic performance loss for an hour or two when things go wrong.
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You may have missed the "much higher" part of the previous paragraph.
And given the reliability of modern drives, unless you have a LOT of
them you may be looking at years of degraded performance to save a few
hours of slow performance after a power fail or similar. In other
words, it's not as black and white as it seems.<br>
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Bill Davidsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davidsen@tmr.com"><davidsen@tmr.com></a>
"Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark
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