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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112011209190.3893-100000@localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> And to 
> clarify the bug, say on a large disk write, the pause isn't constant,

You should elaborate more on the type of disks writes. Is this a write to a
single large file, a rename/delte of a large tree, ot generating of a lot of
files. Cause there is a difference in the meta data and data handling. both
where known to take too much time in different versions.

Greetings
Bernd
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