[Cialug] a good idea for file systems?

[Colin Burnett]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> OK, here I am backing up my hard drive to an ext hdd. It's pretty
>  fast. As a matter of fact, in one way its faster than my laptop's
>  built in hdd because with my laptop, when I do a heavy i/o task like
>  du -sh in my home directory my laptop is practically unusable. Total
>  throughput may be a bit slower but at least I'm able to still use my
>  laptop like normal.

ZFS, IIRC, utilizes a scheduler in its I/O tasks.  So when you're
writing a ton of data it can schedule reads as well so you can still
read directories, etc. without much perception of a huge write being
done.  Having a smarter fs would seem to be more prudent than a dumb
fs with a dongle to make it smarter, yes?  If your dongle doesn't have
the answer to whatever then you're back to square one.


Colin