More specifically, you should set the noatime,data=writeback options in fstab on ext3 partitions for best performance. Correct? > it doesn't really belong here but ext3 has > data journaled (data and meta data) > ordered (meta data journald but data written before meta data (default)) > journald (meta data only journal) > modes. > > The performance differences between ordered and meta data only > journaling should be very small enyway