[Btrfs-devel] btrfs stability

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 13 2008 12:24, David Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:16:55PM +0100, Rekrutacja119 wrote:
>> 2.6.24 kernel, also i see other people start to notice xfs problems too:
>> http://www.t2-project.org/zine/1/ ( i also saw other benchmarks)
>
> <sigh - not this again>
>
> Yes, XFS is slower on metadata intensive operations than other
> filesystems for a certain set of common tests. Big deal.

And then there is write barriers, which are enabled by default since 2.6.17.
Other filesystems may not necessarily use them.