From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>
Subject: Re: ext3: massive latencies for some write operations
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:07:57 -0400
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On 6/26/09, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> This is a relatively well-known problem with ext3.

<snip>

> If you use ext4 this problem should go away.  I would recommend the
> FC11 2.6.29 kernel, since it has all of the latest ext4 fixes in it.

Okay, I have switched to ext4 (although with 2.6.30).  Hopefully I
won't have any major issues, thanks!