[haiku-development] Re: VirtualMemory preferences

  • From: Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:51:32 -0600

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:36 PM, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, i'm sure FAT doesn't do anything else than storing file, so it
> would show if there is a difference with a filesystem journaling all
> the modifications. It may be very bad at allocating a file and finding
> disk space for it, but once the file is created, we would get direct
> access to the disk that may somewhat increase performance.
> Any other filesystem without journaling may work as well, but i don't
> know the full list of supported filesystems on haiku :)

Bear in mind a journalling FS only journals metadata changes, it
doesn't journal the actual block writes inside the swapfile, ergo
there won't be any extra overhead to that.

Regards,

Rene

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