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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.44-[mm3, ac2] time to tar zxf kernel tarball compared forvarious  fs.
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:34:11 +0200
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On Wednesday 23 October 2002 22:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ext3's five-second commit interval and limited journal size really
> bite in this test.  We end up doing most of the writeback within
> the measurement period rather than after it.

The test results should include *both* the time the tar completes
and the time a subsequent sync completes, to tell the whole story.

-- 
Daniel
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