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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:59 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

> 
> I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
> interactive performance good, and for a long time it was.  But this
> I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
> Do not many people run into this daily?  Do all the filesystem
> hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
> 

the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
(or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)



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