Questions tagged [kjournald]

The journaling daemon for the ext3 filesystem.

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How do pdflush, kjournald, swapd, etc interoperate?

Recently saw a question that sparked this thought. Couldn't really find an answer here or via the Google machine. Basically, I'm interested in knowing how the kernel I/O architecture is layered. For example, does kjournald dispatch to pdflush or the…
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linux io stack analysis

I'm trying to understand the Linux IO stack by analyzing blktrace trace. Below is the trace i captured by executing simple fio sequential write with no Direct IO (5 x 8k request size). 8,16 1 1 0.000000000 10006 U N [fio] 0 8,16 …
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jbd2 journal constant i/o

iotop reports a constant i/o about 3% of [jbd2/vda1-8], I think this is the journal manager for ext4. my fstab is: UUID=X / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 devpts …
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Minimizing "idle" writes on a file system

Leaving out many details, I need to create a read/write file system on a device with the following main goals: Eliminate all writes while data is not being explicitly written. Reduce all indirect writes when data is written. Run fsck on boot after…
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