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    libext2fs: allow the default journal size to go as large as a gigabyte · bbd2f78c
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    
    
    Recent research has shown that for a metadata-heavy workload, a 128 MB
    is journal be a bottleneck on HDD's, and that the optimal journal size
    is proportional to number of unique metadata blocks that can be
    modified (and written into the journal) in a 30 second window.  One
    gigabyte should be sufficient for most workloads, which will be used
    for file systems larger than 128 gigabytes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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