I noticed a similar thing. The installer was a lot faster (>=2x or so) when installing to a ext3 root versus installing with xfs root. XFS usually shouldn't be that much slower than ext3 I guess.
-- Very low XFS performance with Ubuntu 8.10 kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294069 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs