Hi again,
> I think the slow performance you're experiencing are caused by the fsync()
> call not being well-optimized in reiser4. I've commented out the function in
> fs/buffer.c, and I'm having much better performance on my / partition.
I don't think this can be advocated as a real solution to performance
problems. This can mean data loss for some applications like email that
expect "fsync return" to mean "this data is safely on disk". May as well
say "I improved the performance of my backups by writing to /dev/null".
To be honest I don't really know what fsync does (I guess it forces
something to be written or something like this) and if yes - why it
gets called that often.
However am I wrong or is fsync mostly calles by applications writing
data, whereas starting xorg+kde is mostly a read job?
Thank you for your patience, lg Clemens
