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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rename BTRfs to MuchSlowerFS ?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:23:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E64F77B.1090401@wpkg.org> (raw)

>    That's because dpkg is known for using (f)sync very heavily.  btrfs
> honours the sync request in all cases, so it's much much slower than
> ext3, which doesn't.

Hmm, is it really the case with ext3/ext4 (ignoring fsync in some cases)?

Sounds like a bug in ext3/ext4 then.

Is it documented anywhere where ext3/ext4 would just silently ignore fsync?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 16:23 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2011-09-05 16:25 ` Rename BTRfs to MuchSlowerFS ? Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-05 16:29   ` Hugo Mills
2011-09-08  7:04     ` youagree
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-05 13:51 Swâmi Petaramesh
2011-09-05 14:00 ` Hugo Mills
2011-09-05 14:20   ` Roman Mamedov
2011-09-05 17:10     ` Elric Milon
2011-09-05 14:17 ` David McBride
2011-09-05 19:25 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2011-09-06 15:30   ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2011-09-06 17:11     ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-09-07 14:15       ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2011-09-15 19:37         ` Felix Blanke
2011-09-15 22:16           ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-09-16  6:21             ` Maciej Marcin Piechotka
2011-09-16  6:42               ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-09-16  8:39                 ` Maciej Marcin Piechotka

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