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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Igor A. Valcov wrote:

> I also noticed that I/O barriers were introduced in v2.6.16 and
> thought they may be the cause, but mounting the file system with
> 'nobarrier' doesn't seem to affect the performance in any way.


did this happen to be a remount with nobarrier, or a fresh mount?

-Eric