xfs: does mkfs.xfs require fancy switches to get decent performance? (was Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?)

Mike Galbraith umgwanakikbuti at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 20:35:23 PDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 10:20 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

> IOWS, XFS just hates your disk. Spend $50 and buy a cheap SSD and
> the problem goes away. :)

I'd love to.  Too bad sorry sack of sh*t MB manufacturer only applied
_connectors_ to 4 of 6 available ports, and they're all in use :)

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> 
> And now in more detail.

Thanks for those details, made perfect sense.

	-Mike




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