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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: Rename BTRfs to MuchSlowerFS ?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:23:23 +0200
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>    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?


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