Ooops, I have cc the wrong command on the Ubuntu server. Please correct: > ubuntu:# dd if=/gl_nunki/file_test of=/dev/null > 524288+0 records in > 524288+0 records out > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 3,15924 s, 85,0 MB/s with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file_test count=262144 bs=1024 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 5,56942 s, 48,2 MB/s Sorry for that! -- Olivier