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On 9/8/2011 12:52 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> So, a different scenario, then: Sometimes I need to log stuffs (via
> ULOG) or do a tcpdump. Will JFS give me additional benefit to ext4? Or
> should I just stick with ext4?

	Simplest performance gain for appends is to drop atime/dirtime from the 
file or filesystem. It's a fairly common practice on database servers 
though the gains are relatively minor. I'm not sure how much it would 
affect logging, but it would be fairly easy to test.

kashani