On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Frank Mayhar<fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's what you would think, isn't it? However, you (and we) would be > wrong. In our testing, ext4+fsync was significantly worse than ext4 > without fsync. Like, six times worse. Yes, this is a nonintuitive > result and no, I can't yet explain it. Frank is referring to (ext4 with no_journal)+fsync compared to ext4 with no journal and no fsync. With the journal everything is working as reliably as expected. We will be publishing data for all the permutations of crashes and power cycles we have tested as soon as we are confident in all the data. mrubin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
