On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was just looking at the test data. I wonder of this slowness might also be due to sync on ext4 using a barrier, and not on ext2/3? Indeed. ext4 mounts by default with barrier=1... I'll collect some comparison data with various tunables. Sorry. A -- 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