This is what makes RPM slow as well

Posted May 26, 2008 17:20 UTC (Mon) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: This is what makes RPM slow as well by lmb
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

At least btrfs doesn't even have a journal...

... having a journal is soooo  1999 ;)