Jan Engelhardt put forth on 3/10/2011 8:14 AM: > Hi, > > > Between 2.6.33 and 2.6.37 there was a lot of interesting announcements > with regards to XFS performance. However, now that I booted into > 2.6.37.2, I still see the metadata slowness from earlier. > (Basically `time (tar -xf linux-2.6.37.tar.gz; sync)` - ext4 gets the > job done in like 15-20 seconds, xfs is still syncing after 11 minutes.) > > Was there something I missed? Yes. You have to add "delaylog" to your mount options to enable the metadata performance enhancement. It won't be the default setting until 2.6.39. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
