[systemd-devel] consider dropping defrag of journals on btrfs

Phillip Susi phill at thesusis.net
Fri Feb 5 21:16:12 UTC 2021


Lennart Poettering writes:

> Nope. We always interleave stuff. We currently open all journal files
> in parallel. The system one and the per-user ones, the current ones
> and the archived ones.

Wait... every time you look at the journal at all, it has to read back
through ALL of the archived journals, even if you are only interested in
information since the last boot that just happened 5 minutes ago?



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