XFS journaling position

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Michael Monnerie wrote:
>
>> in an area where disks are slower than on the outside. And if you fill
>> only half of the partition, it means your log is totally on the end of
>> the disk, access-wise.
>
> Hi Michael.  Ignoring LVM for a moment...

*Sigh*.  I meant to go on to point out that LVM further abstracts away the 
hardware making it even harder to establish where the fastest part of the 
physical disk is.

Similarly virtual hosts have little chance of trying to establish the 
physical nature of the device holding their filesystems.

Cheers,

Rob

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