[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

Jeff DeFouw jeffd at i2k.com
Thu Sep 17 10:59:53 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:29:35AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> If you have solid hardware and a UPS run ext3 as
> "noatime,data=writeback" and you'll probably get nearly equivalent
> performance.  And an external journal helps, just as with XFS.

relatime and data=writeback are now defaults in kernel 2.6.30, the 
result of some heated discussion on expected filesystem behavior.

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Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>


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