Very cool, that was revealing. Perhaps this discussion can evolve into how journalling (e.g. ext3, etc.) works and why it is good/bad. Anybody?
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Okay, I have satisfied my curiosity in this matter.
Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who replied to me off-list quickly after my original post, was correct in that the overhead I was seeing is due to indirect blocks. Credit also to Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, for providing very nice empirical evidence (and saving me the trouble of producing it). .
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