On Mar 27, 2002 20:07 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Again, we don't need to sync indirects as we dirty them because
> > we run a commit if IS_SYNC(inode) prior to returning to the
> > caller of write(2).
>
> Will this help synchronous NFS writes, at least a little? I have slow
> write performance on "sync" NFSv3 exports (ext3 underneath, you guessed
> it), kernel 2.4.19-pre3-ac4 (not really surprising, sync is slow ;-). Is
> it worth a try?
Are you mounting the ext3 filesystem with "data=journal" and have a
large journal? This will help a lot. You can also set up an external
journal device to speed things up.
Cheers, Andreas
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