> > [root@cluster0 ~]# sync ; time (dd if=/dev/zero of=/share/foo.bar bs=4k > count=512K ; sync ) > 524288+0 records in > 524288+0 records out > 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 158.164 seconds, 13.6 MB/s > > real 2m39.045s > user 0m0.108s > sys 0m1.420s > write speeds without write-behind will be low for such small block sizes because of the high context switch overhead incurred by fuse. A bigger block size would help too. Please let us know the results with write-behind. avati