Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt has the following sentence: This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all others modes. And the following link talks about it in more details. Can anybody give the reason? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html#4 -- Jingguo -- 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