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		gaius on July 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Virtual Machines suck when you run them from B... Ironic that BTRFS is sponsored by Oracle then!

aliguori on July 14, 2011 [–]

A lot of filesystems don't optimize O_SYNC heavily until it becomes necessary. ext4 has really bad O_SYNC performance until pretty recently FWIW.

Given where BTRFS is right now development wise, it's not at all surprising O_SYNC hasn't been optimized yet.

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