On 1/7/11 10:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Phil Karn put forth on 1/7/2011 9:59 PM: > >> No? I'm having a very hard time getting XFS on rotating SATA drives to >> come close to Reiser or ext4 when extracting a large tarball (e.g., the >> Linux source tree) or when doing rm -rf. > > This is because you're not using Dave's delayed logging patch, and > you've not been reading this list for many months, as it's been > discussed in detail many times. See: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt;h=96d0df28bed323d5596fc051b0ffb96ed8e3c8df;hb=HEAD Yes, I am new to the list, and while I did pull down a year of the archives I certainly haven't read them all. Thanks to this file pointer and your explanation, I now have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Phil _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
