Ext3 users - Dec 2001 - why copying files so slow in ext3

it takes 5 seconds to copy 20M files from one directory to another.However it
only takes no more than 1 second in the ext2 filesystem.





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it takes 5 seconds to copy 20M files from one directory to another.However it
only takes no more than 1 second in the ext2 filesystem.





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Li Chengyuan wrote:
> 
> it takes 5 seconds to copy 20M files from one directory to another.However
it
> only takes no more than 1 second in the ext2 filesystem.
> 
Sometimes it just seems that way, but it's not really so.

When you copy the files with ext2, all the written data is left
in memory for up to thirty seconds.  So if you run

	time cp -r dir1 dir2

then all you hve measured is the time to read the files, not the
time to write them.  Try this:

	time (cp -r dir1 dir2 ; sync )

and you'll see that the two are closer.

The reason for this is that ext3 only leaves write data in memory
for up to five seconds, not thirty.

hi:
  thanks for answer.But in fact i set up a ramdisk of 30M with ext2
filesystem, and also copy the file(20M) in ext3 filesystem to ram disk.it will
take 5-6 second.while in ext2 filesystem, only 1-2 second is taken.So i want
to konw the reasons. thanks.
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