> Did you try mounting ext3 whith data=writeback by chance? People have
> found that makes a big difference in performance.
I'm not sure, there's other people here doing the OS stuff - I'm pretty
much ignorant about what "data=writeback" could mean :-D
They knew however that for the data partitions no FS journaling is
needed, and for the WAL partition meta data journaling is enough, so I
guess they tuned ext3 for this.
Cheers,
Csaba.
