File System Performance on FreeBSD

[Mihai Donțu]

On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:55:40 Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable
> first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first
> or not.

https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Barriers_on_by_default

Since it has been declared stable, the performance of ext4 has dropped due to 
various reliability fixes, culminating with the making of write barriers a 
default.

More info here: http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/

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Mihai Donțu