Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: softupdates and ext2 | From | Mats Lofkvist <> | Date | 31 Mar 1999 20:07:31 +0200 |
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<unknown@riverstyx.net> writes:
> If I'm not mistaken, you can mount your partitions with the 'sync' option. > This should give you similar results, with a slight performance penalty.
It's more like a huge performance penalty, e.g. I've measured 80kbyte/s writes which is close to a factor 100 slower than with async. Of course it isn't a fair comparison since you do get safe data writes, but if what you need is safe metadata and usable performance ext2fs doesn't have it.
_ Mats Lofkvist mal@algonet.se
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