> Did you try mounting ext3 whith data=writeback by chance? People have > found that makes a big difference in performance. I'm not sure, there's other people here doing the OS stuff - I'm pretty much ignorant about what "data=writeback" could mean :-D They knew however that for the data partitions no FS journaling is needed, and for the WAL partition meta data journaling is enough, so I guess they tuned ext3 for this. Cheers, Csaba.
