Re: yum upgrade on btrfs very slow

Tomasz Torcz
2009-10-21T09:27:33Z

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:43:51PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > >
> > > If you're comparing w/ext3 and wondering why btrfs is sooooooo much
> > > slower it might be because btrfs has barriers on by default and ext3
> > > doesn't. You could mount -o nobarrier for btrfs or mount -o barrier=1
> > > for ext3 for a proper comparison.

Last update: things got noticably faster with 2.6.31.4-88.fc12.x86_64,
which contains backport of latest mainline btrfs (thank you, Josef!).
No more comlains from me (for now ;).

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