On 25 April 2010 16:47, Phill Coxon <phi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > The old drive is running ext3 so that's not it. > > I'm also installing the new drive with ext3 for the time being. > > Thanks for the suggestion though. >
Yes, I remember you saying that. But I was pointing out that while the workaround was for people using ext4, the default for Ubuntu, it was added to things like dpkg which doesn't care/know about your filesystem. I've been testing 10.04 beta2 and saw a huge jump in disk IO because of the workaround. So just to be clear, the fix was applied to dpkg, which caused a side effect of more disk IO regardless of filesystem or hard drive make/model. sV
