[Ocfs2-devel] OCFS2 features RFC - separate journal?

[Mark Fasheh]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:23:47PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >>It is worth remembering that not every OCFS2 user will be running it on a
> >>big expensive SAN.  Probably not even the majority.
> >
> >Well, that's debatable.  My only point, though, is that there are higher
> >priority things that we should get to first because they affect *everyone*.
> 
> By all means, prioritize them.  Did separate journals make the list, even
> if well towards the end?
It's on the list now.

> 
> >If the lack of external journals makes you sad, well, I'm sorry to hear
> >that.  We certainly wouldn't turn away patches if someone got to it
> >before us.
> 
> By proposing a feature that I do not also implicitly propose that Oracle
> employees have to do the work.  This is a quick hack after all, I would be
> happy to contribute.
By all means. It should be a fairly straightfoward change. Out of
curiousity, are we talking about a single journal device (all slot journals
on one disk) or one device per journal?
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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