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...nd set set swapsync=sync set nofsync in my .exrc but that hasn't helped. Has anyone else seen this and do they have a work around? I'm about to switch to reiserfs and that's a lot of fuss for what should be a simple problem (I hope). Thanks, -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

[ NOTE: I'm putting this off-topic thread back on the Ext3 list, temporarily, as I hope _someone_else_ can help this gentleman better than I have. With each response I get 10 more questions, 5 of them have already been answered and another 5 that utterly confuses me on what he is trying to accomplish, because he's changing his priorities (to often conflicting ones). ] "IT3 Stuart

All, Trying to figure out how to deal with, I assume, a dying disk that's unfortunately on / (ext3). Getting errors similar to: Dec 31 20:44:30 mybox kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 31 20:44:30 mybox kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=163423, high=0, low=163423, sector=163360 Dec 31 20:44:30 mybox kernel: end_request:

I've had the chance to use a testsystem here and couldn't resist running a few benchmark programs on them: bonnie++, tiobench, dbench and a few generic ones (cp/rm/tar/etc...) on ext{234}, btrfs, jfs, ufs, xfs, zfs. All with standard mkfs/mount options and +noatime for all of them. Here are the results, no graphs - sorry: http://nerdbynature.de/benchmarks/v40z/2009-12-22/ Reiserfs

I've had the chance to use a testsystem here and couldn't resist running a few benchmark programs on them: bonnie++, tiobench, dbench and a few generic ones (cp/rm/tar/etc...) on ext{234}, btrfs, jfs, ufs, xfs, zfs. All with standard mkfs/mount options and +noatime for all of them. Here are the results, no graphs - sorry: http://nerdbynature.de/benchmarks/v40z/2009-12-22/ Reiserfs

Dear ext3-users, I write scientific number-crunching codes which deal with large input and output files (Gb, tens of Gb, as much as hundreds of Gygabytes on occasions). Now there are these multi-core setups like Intel Core 2 Duo becoming available at a low cost. Disk I/O is one of the biggest bottlenecks. I would very much like to put to use the multiple processors to read or write in parallel

hello everyone. i guess this has been asked before, but haven't found it in the faq. i have the following issue... it is not uncommon nowadays to have desktops with filesystems in the order of 500gb/1tb. now, my kubuntu (but other distros do the same) forces a fsck on ext3 every so often, no matter what. in the past it wasn't a big issue. but with sizes increasing so much, users are