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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 19:43:40 +0200
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b
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> > When I copy a file(13Megs) from /home/ to /tmp/, sync takes almost 2 minutes.
> > When I copy the same file to /usr/local/, sync returns almost right away.
> 
> Gad.  Please, mount those filesystems as ext2 and retest.

Checking out $(smartctl -l /dev/hda) might be advisable too.

T.
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