Slower performance with ext4

[Mark Kirkwood]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> So to reiterate - guaranteeing writes to filesystem is good - but not 
> good enough if the underlying device does not honor the software 
> request. This is the guts of most workstation corruption problems, 
> regardless of fs type.
>   
Of course - the above does not rule out implementation bugs with some 
kernel versions and some driver variants etc etc ... which will be 
always with us to some extent (c.f the Intel x25-E ssd link in previous 
posting). We expect (and generally see) these fixed in subsequent versions.

regards

Mark