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Message-ID: <9b1675090904021949g301b1bbaxd1810ce82185e002@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:49:55 -0600
From: "Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> It will, but you might not like the performance.... the reason why
>> it's there is that some users might want the particular tradeoff, but
>> it probably wouldn't make a good default.
>
> Thanks for confirming this. Yes, I know about the performance impact, but
> perhaps it's feasible for some setups.
>
> Christian.
>
> PS: I was curious *how* bad the impact was and so I tried generating a
> 477 MB tarball, first on an async, then on an sync mounted partition:
>
> /dev/md0 /mnt/md0 ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered
> $ time tar -cf /mnt/md0/test.tar /usr
> real 1m36.615s
>
> /dev/md0 /mnt/md0 ext4 rw,sync,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered
> $ time tar -cf /mnt/md0/test.tar /usr
> real 5m23.793s
lol, yep sounds about right. Probably much worse on my machine, given
the disk speed is around 20-23M/sec.
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