More specifically, you should set the noatime,data=writeback options in
fstab on ext3 partitions for best performance. Correct?
> it doesn't really belong here but ext3 has
> data journaled (data and meta data)
> ordered (meta data journald but data written before meta data (default))
> journald (meta data only journal)
> modes.
>
> The performance differences between ordered and meta data only
> journaling should be very small enyway