Hello, Here is my timing on copying and removing 1 big file on a reiser4 partition. The Reiser4 partition is a separate Sata type disk. Observation: The removal took some time. I was surprised about the time taken to remove the file. Glenn # time cp /tmp/openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso . real 1m37.936s user 0m0.048s sys 0m13.969s # ll openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4651712512 Jun 19 23:04 # time rm openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso real 4m24.826s user 0m0.000s sys 0m46.571s -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html