Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Jordan Russell <jr-list-2007@xxxxxx> writes: >> It's an ext3 partition, so I guess that doesn't apply? >> >> I tried remounting /dev/sda2 with the "barrier=0" option (which I assume >> disables barriers, looking at the source), though, just to see if it >> would make any difference, but it didn't; the database build still took >> 31 minutes. > > Compare the read ahead settings. I'm not sure what you mean. There's a per-mount read ahead setting? -- Jordan Russell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html