On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:

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Justin Piszcz wrote:

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Someone should write a document with XFS and barrier support, if I recall,

Best not to do things in a rush, here is the correct benchmark:

# rm -rf linux*7
# sync
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# /usr/bin/time bash -c 'tar xf linux-2.6.27.7.tar; sync'
0.13user 1.62system 0:46.67elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (17major+955minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Justin.