Slower performance with ext4

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Raphael wrote:
> But isn't the default filesystem for ubuntu ext4, and isn't it the default for a reason?
>   

/me rotfl. On RHEL/Centos, ext3 is the only filesystem available. Not 
sure if they will offer ext3 + ext4 with RHEL6. Why?

ext4 is an unproven filesystem. Data loss anyone? Not like ext3 and jfs. 
XFS codebase is so blooming big, I am not sure that it will ever reach 
the state that ext3 and jfs currently are.

> Sent from my iPod
>
> On 30-Oct-2009, at 2:42 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
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> Raphael wrote:
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> Help, after I had clean installed Karmic on my ext4 partition, the 
> performance was significantly slower compared to ext3. Startup was 
> around 7 secs but with ext4 it's now 20 secs application speeds are 
> also slower. 
> jfs! jfs! jfs!
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