Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Is it normal to expect the write speed go down to only few dozens of > kilobytes/s? Is it because of that many seeks? Can it be somehow > optimized? I have similar problems on my linux source partition which also has a lot of hard linked files (although probably not quite as many as you do). It seems like hard linking prevents some of the heuristics ext* uses to generate non fragmented disk layouts and the resulting seeking makes things slow. What has helped a bit was to recreate the file system with -O^dir_index dir_index seems to cause more seeks. Also keeping enough free space is also a good idea because that allows the file system code better choices on where to place data. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
