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From: Erik Elmore <lk@bigsexymo.com>
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Subject: Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes
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> 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.

It appears when writing a single large file such as downloading or copying 
a file, and also when I copy a large number of smaller files at once.  I 
have noticed no performance hits when renaming or deleting a large number 
of files at once.

Erik


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