On Mon, August 16, 2010 15:35, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> I know of ext* performance checks where people did run gtar to unpack a
> linux
> kernel archive and these people did nothing but metering the wall clock
> time
> for gtar.
>
> I repeated this test and it turned out, that Linux did not even start to
> write
> to the disk when gtar finished.

As a test of ext? performance, that does seem to be lacking something!

I guess it's a consequence of the low sound levels of modern disk drives;
you go back enough years, that error couldn't have passed unnoticed :-) .

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