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Subject: Re: ext4 is faster with LVM than without, and other filesystem benchmarks
From: Bernd Eckenfels <bernd-10 () eckenfels ! net>
Date: 2010-05-07 15:28:31
Message-ID: 201005071528.o47FSVas054141 () neskaya ! eckenfels ! net
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In article <20100507142310.GF13143@lh.kyla.fi> you wrote:
> I think the most surprising result of the benchmarks is that ext4
> seems to be significantly faster under LVM than on the raw /dev/sdd1
> partition. Without LVM the variance in run times is much larger.
Sounds like the syncs/barriers never reach the disk with LVM. What mount
journal/sync options did you use? default? Is dmesg telling you that
barriers have been turned off for the lvm case? IF yo uwant it fast and
dirty try nobarrier,data=writeback :)
Greetings
Bernd
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