>> Yes, I run 24 concurent tar -czf as a test. > But those shouldn't do small synchronous writes, should they?
Depends. Is the filesystem mounted noatime (or read-only)? If not, there are going to be atime updates, and don't all inode updates get done synchronously? Or am I misunderstanding something? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
