In defense of per-BDI writeback

Posted Oct 11, 2009 6:30 UTC (Sun) by mfedyk (guest, #55303)
In reply to: In defense of per-BDI writeback by anton
Parent article: In defense of per-BDI writeback

I was doing a similar test, but over network filesystems (cifs in this case -- centos5 on both sides).

If I copied files with cp or mv, I noticed a marked improvement in throughput compared to the gnome file manager.

Try it again with mv or cp and see if there is a difference.

Posted Oct 11, 2009 12:59 UTC (Sun) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link]

I did use cp.