Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Andrew Scott
On 12 Sep 2000, at 18:08, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > I made the comment because I remember back when the discussion was current > on linux kernel. I thought Jeff Merkey's, message was to the point. Para- > phrasing from memory, it was something to the effect that novell had > tried many el

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
You're welcome. :-) Jeff Hans Reiser wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another >

(reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Rogier Wolff
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another > > optimization we learned the hard way by trying

(reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Hans Reiser
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In > NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent > artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another > optimization we learned the hard way by trying numerous app