[Nottingham] EXT4 no journal

[Sergiusz Pawlowicz]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:00, Rory Holland
<modestforagenius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a netbook wth an SSD, and have heard that running a journaled
> filesystem can severely impact the lifetime (and performance for this
> one!) of the drive.
> However, I know ext4 brings many performance improvements over ext2,
> so I would like to know if there's a way to disable the journal on an
> ext4 partition. Google isn't much help, as there's lots of conflicting
> information.
> I think there's a way using a livecd and the "tune2fs" tool.

i am not sure if these patches are incorporated to mainstream kernel:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0390131ba84fd3f726f9e24fc4553828125700bb

but probably you can have a look at them.

s.