Slower performance with ext4

Mark Kirkwood markir at paradise.net.nz
Thu Nov 5 08:32:45 UTC 2009


Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>
> What are you comparing?
> * Karmic Koala clean install on ext3
> with
> * Karmic Koala clean install on ext4
>
> Could you please do a clean install with ext3 + install bootchart, to get
> an exact timing, and then do the same with a clean ext4 install? Thank
> you.
>
>   

Good advice,

You might want to also do a boot with your ext4 filesystems mounted with 
'barrier=0' in fstab.
Cheers

Mark

P.s: Apologies for helping to drag this thread a little off topic for a 
while there - but hopefully some of you found the discussion interesting 
anyway!





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