Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS

From: Trenton D. Adams
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 01:15:44 EST


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:58:17PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
>>
>> I've got a problematic server with 8GB RAM.  Even if set both to 1,
>> that's 80MB and the crappy disks I have in it will often only write
>> 10-20MB/s or less due to the seekiness of the workload.  That means
>> delays of 5-10 seconds worst case which isn't fun.
>>
>
> People will still be better off moving to ext4, but for people who
> aren't quite confident in ext4's stability yet and who want to stick
> with ext3, maybe it's a good short-term solution.  Maybe
> data=writeback with the rename hueristic would be a better default
> than data=ordered for ext3.
>
>                                                - Ted
>

I've tried that before...

tdamac ~ # mount -t ext3 -o data=writeback,remount,rw /dev/s/sys /
mount: / not mounted already, or bad option

Does it have to be done on initial mount?
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