On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > That's because dpkg is known for using (f)sync very heavily. btrfs > >honours the sync request in all cases, so it's much much slower than > >ext3, which doesn't. > > Hmm, is it really the case with ext3/ext4 (ignoring fsync in some cases)? > > Sounds like a bug in ext3/ext4 then. > > Is it documented anywhere where ext3/ext4 would just silently ignore fsync? They don't. Unteil recently ext3 and reiserfs would not flush the disk caches unless enabled by a mount option, but even that has recently been fixed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
