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Hello, When approaching hosting providers for services, the first question many of them asked us was about the amount of IOPS the disk system should support. While we stress-tested our service, we recorded between 4000 and 6000 "merged io operations per second" as seen in "iostat -x" and collectd (varies between the different components of the system, we have a few such

Hello everyone, Btrfs v0.16 is available for download, please see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ for download links and project information. v0.16 has a shiny new disk format, and is not compatible with filesystems created by older Btrfs releases. But, it should be the fastest Btrfs yet, with a wide variety of scalability fixes and new features. There were quite a few contributors this time

I'm trying to do an fsck on an ext3 partition but I'm seeing abysmally slow disk throughput; monitoring with "dstat" (like vmstat) shows ~1200-1500KB/s throughput to the disks. Even with 24hrs of fsck-ing I only get ~3% (still in pass1). The filesystem is ext3 running "e2fsck -C0 /dev/sda3" and about 3.7TB on an x86_64-based system with 4GB RAM. e2fsprogs is 1.41.9.