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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:00:33
Message-Id: 200908141900.25967.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy by Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
1 Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
2
3 > Note that on Linux you may need to add "-no-fsync" because file I/O is slow
4 > on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows things down by aprox. 10%
5 > but allows star to grant that everything was really copied to stable
6 > storage. On Linux, ot using -no-fsync slows things down by aprox. 400%,
7 > this is why I recommend to add "-no-fsync".
8
9 This is also quite interesting. Do you have some (links to) recent benchmarks
10 which would second that? Could this even be depending on the filesystem used on
11 Linux?
12
13 Bye...
14
15 Dirk

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