Questions regarding journal replay

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu>:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:01:31PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > * Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu>:
> > 
> > > Increasing the journal size may speed up certain filesystem workloads
> > > which are causing the journal to wrap very frequently.  However,
> > > increasing the journal *will* increase the time to replay the journal....
> > 
> > Indeed. This is a Maildir-style mailbox server. Many small writes,
> > reads and deletes.
> > 
> > > How long did the journal replay take when you were using the 128MB
> > > internal inode?
> > 
> > 800s
> 
> So maybe I missed it, but about how long did it take with your 32GB
> external journal?

One hour
:(

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