On 2010-11-08 16:40 +0100, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 11/6/2010 5:41 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For ext4, mounting with the nodelalloc option helps a lot, although this >> option allegedly slows down ext4 in the general case. > > How does that help? Doesn't it just disable the delayed allocator, > forcing the blocks to be allocated when they hit the cache, rather than > when flushed? Wouldn't that make sure you don't get zero byte files, > but instead get files full of trash?
I just meant that fsync() seems to be a lot faster in ext4 with that mount option, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588339#50. I have no idea why this is so, though. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
