On Thursday, Jan 20, 2005, at 11:09 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
I've created an ext2 (linux) virtual filesystem using the ext2fsx package under Mac OS X:
And write performance isn't too bad, either, on a PowerBook G4 running 0S X 10.2.8:
$ foo () { dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1MD count=$1 ; sync ; } ; sync ; time -p foo 1000 ; dir --si zeros
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 57.48
user 0.04
sys 7.98
-rw-r--r-- 1 robertci staff 1.0G Jan 20 15:03 zeros
$ echo $[ 1000 / 57 ] 17
$ df -HTl . Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk2 ext2 4.5G 1.1G 3.3G 24% /Volumes/remastKnoppix
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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