On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:42:50PM +0300, Andrei Banu wrote: > Hi, > > Meantime I've created another md device (just 5GB) and I've redone > the tests. I believe > this is easier and less risky than remounting an used md device. > > root [/home2]# mount -l | grep md3 > /dev/md3 on /home2 type ext4 (rw,barrier=0) > > root [/home2]# dd bs=2M count=64 if=/dev/zero of=test6 conv=fdatasync > 64+0 records in > 64+0 records out > 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 12.3287 s, 10.9 MB/s > > So the speed issue is still with us I believe. Thanks for doing this. It seems that the problem we met are different. > > Is there some way to check the barrier is really set to 0? You have seen that from the output of 'mount' command barrier is 0. You can 'cat /proc/mounts' to double-check it. But it should be the same. Regards, - Zheng > > Thanks a lot! > > On 10/21/2013 4:53 PM, Zheng Liu wrote: > >Hi Andrei, > > > >Could you please disable barrier for ext4 and try your 'dd' test again? > > $ sudo mount -t ext4 -o remount,barrier=0 ${DEV} ${MNT} > > > >*WARNING: you could lost your data with barrier=0 when you get a power > >failure or cold reset.* > > > >We have met a similar problem that is because some SSDs couldn't handle > >barrier command properly. > > > >Regards, > > - Zheng > -- 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