>> Well "performance" can be roughly the same, even if "speed" can >> be very different. http://www.sabi.co.uk/blog/15-two.html#151023 > [ ... ] what you mean to say here, [ ... ] Some people may say that 'eatmydata $COMMAND' can improve a lot the "performance" of running '$COMMAND'. More properly it can improve its speed, but its performance arguably goes to zero or more precisely becomes insignificant, in most cases. That's a pretty huge difference. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html