Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300 Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned > partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar > output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the > shell prompt returns) Extracting a linux tarball creates lots of very small files, so it is expected to perform very badly on unaligned partitions. But I suppose that copying the tarball itself to the disk could be only slightly slower than normal. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs