[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 20:36 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 

>          MB/Sec
>          Write   Read
> XFS:    231     202
> ext2, dir_index:
>          221     205
> ext3, dir_index, data=ordered:
>          80      196
> ext3, dir_index, data=writeback:
>          95      199
> ext3, data=writeback:
>          95      201
> 

> Steve, you say you've been happy with XFS for a few years. Have you been using 
> it under any kind of load?
> 

Thanks for the numbers.

I didn't say I was happy with XFS.  I said I don't use it and have heard
horror stories about it.

Does anyone know the details as to the work that has gone on in recent
kernel.org kernels regarding write barriers? Isn't it supposed to
eliminate the need for turning hardware write caching off?