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    SubjectRe: ext3 metadata performace
    Dieter Stüken wrote:
    > after I switched from from ext2 to ext3 i observed some severe
    > performance degradation. Most discussion about this topic deals
    > with tuning of data-io performance. My problem however is related to
    > metadata updates. When cloning (cp -al) or deleting directory trees I
    > find, that about 7200 files are created/deleted per minute. Seems
    > this is related to some ex3 strategy, to wait for each metadata to be
    > written to disk. Interestingly this occurs with my new hw-raid
    > controller (3ware 9500S), which even has an battery buffered disk cache.
    > Thus there is no need for synchronous IO anyway. If I disable the
    > disk cache on my plain SATA disk using ext3, I also get this behavior.
    >
    Try increasing the journal size (mkfs -t ext3 -J size=20000) and see if
    that improves things.

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