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XFS: the filesystem of the future?

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

Posted Feb 4, 2012 13:00 UTC (Sat) by zomonto (guest, #82108)
In reply to: XFS: the filesystem of the future? by dgc
Parent article: XFS: the filesystem of the future?

> The original barrier mechanism was "cache flush, write, cache flush" and could make the drive slower than not caching in the first place depending on the workload. More recently we just use the FUA mechanism if the drive supports that, and that has neglible performance overhead.

No, libata always disables FUA by default. You can enabled it with a
kernel parameter though.


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