linux-kernel - Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS

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Message-ID: <9b1675090904021724t2fb0a671uc10d8e7bcba0bc5c@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:24:06 -0600
From:	"Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	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 6:09 PM, Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> They just say - this is file-system bug, it is fixed in
>> ext4 now, just fix the bug in UBIFS.
>
> Would *mounting* the filesystem with "-o sync" help? This way no
> filesystem "fixes" are needed and userland would not have to be rewritten.
>
> Christian.

Yes, mounting "-o sync" does improve ext3 performance.  It sucks
though, because I do want quick writes.  And mounting with sync option
slows down to disk io speeds.  In my case, that's between 20 and 23
megabytes per second *big frown, quivering lip, and tears in my eyes*.
:P
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