Re: kernel 2.6.13 buffer strangeness - ext2/3/reiser4/xfs comparison

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Anthony Wesley <awesley@acquerra.com.au> wrote:
>
> I compared ext2,ext3,xfs,vfat,reiser and reiser4.
> 
>  The hands-down winner was ext2. All the others showed problems of either lower disk throughput
>  or dropped frames during video capture.

ext2 is a good filesystem.  For that sort of application all the journaling
gunk can really get in the way.

You should have tested ext3 with data=writeback.
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