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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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At some point in the past, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>> Last I checked, things scaled pretty nicely on 4 ways.

At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> Try 4 or 8 mkfs's in parallel on a 4x box running virgin 2.4.x.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:00:22AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
> "Doctor, it hurts..."

Doing disk io is supposed to hurt? I'll file this in the "sick and
wrong" category along with RBJ and Hohensee.

In the meantime, compare to 2.5.x.


-- wli
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