Slower performance with ext4

[Karl F. Larsen]

Raphael wrote:
> But isn't the default filesystem for ubuntu ext4, and isn't it the default for a reason?
> 
> Sent from my iPod
> 
> On 30-Oct-2009, at 2:42 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> 
> Raphael wrote:
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
	When I loaded Karmic Beta I had a choice to use ext3 or ext4. 
Grub 2 will run on either file system. This tells me I made a 
bad choice going with ext4, but I thought it was fixed by now.

Karl


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