[CentOS] ext3 filesystem performance question

[Jordi Espasa Clofent]

> Also, with ext3 and depending on the task, certain mount options will
> speed things up considerably. Be aware that ext3 is by nature very
> careful and paranoid about your data, which is why it can be slower.
> Using these tuning options will speed it up, but at the cost of some
> of this paranoia.  Mounting the filesystem 'noatime' and using
> 'commit=15' (instead of the default of 5) should also help
> considerably. You may also wish to try setting 'data=writeback', which
> will make ext3's journaling behave a bit more like xfs's, though
> messing with the 'data' mount options should be done with care and
> testing. 

Interesting info, Jim.
But, if I modify these options ¿Is the fs robustness as before?

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