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Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release

Posted by timothy on from the good-things-come-from-certain-clashes dept.

microbee writes "Following the Linux kernel 2.6.29 release, several famous kernel hackers have raised complaints upon what seems to be a long-time performance problem related to ext3. Alan Cox, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andi Keen, Theodore Ts'o, and of course Linus Torvalds have all participated. It may shed some light on the status of Linux filesystems. For example, Linus Torvalds commented on the corruption caused by writeback mode, calling it 'idiotic.'"

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  1. Re:Slow performance by SIR_Taco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The server is taking too long to respond; please wait a minute or 2 and try again.

    Mmmh, must be a big problem

    You sure that wasn't an ad for Viagra targeted specifically to the over-the-hill nerd community?

    look at the top for for 'skip this ad'

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