ext3/xfs by default journal the meta-data changes. You can turn this
off in ext3 by simply mounting as ext2.
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:38:55 -0500
Aschaffer@bloomberg.com wrote:
> XFS seems to work pretty well. ext3 uses journaling which is very
> slow, xfs uses it as well but xfs tends to be faster overall. Try
> adding data =writeback to the mount parameters when using ext3 or xfs.
> I think this turns of journaling.
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