Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS

From: Trenton D. Adams
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 20:24:20 EST


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> They just say - this is file-system bug, it is fixed in
>> ext4 now, just fix the bug in UBIFS.
>
> Would *mounting* the filesystem with "-o sync" help? This way no
> filesystem "fixes" are needed and userland would not have to be rewritten.
>
> Christian.

Yes, mounting "-o sync" does improve ext3 performance. It sucks
though, because I do want quick writes. And mounting with sync option
slows down to disk io speeds. In my case, that's between 20 and 23
megabytes per second *big frown, quivering lip, and tears in my eyes*.
:P
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