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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: yum upgrade on btrfs very slow
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:55:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026085545.GA5564@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091021092733.GD23138@mother.pipebreaker.pl>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:27:33AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> 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 ;).

Fantastic. Are you running with or without barriers now?

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28 12:18 yum upgrade on btrfs very slow Tomasz Torcz
2009-09-28 13:35 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-29  6:18   ` Tomasz Torcz
2009-09-29 13:25     ` Chris Mason
2009-09-30 19:43       ` Tomasz Torcz
2009-10-01  9:01         ` Tomasz Torcz
2009-10-21  9:27           ` Tomasz Torcz
2009-10-26  8:55             ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-10-26 13:35               ` Tomasz Torcz
2009-10-01  9:04         ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-05 12:09           ` Ric Wheeler

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