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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: what do you do that stresses your filesystem?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:12:49 +0300
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To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Oleg Drokin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:03:57PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
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>>Another slowness (especially with reiserfs3 without the notails option) 
>>is "dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=1024k"
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>Well, I'd say that artrifical limiting of amount of data to be transferred
>is a cheating ;).
>Reiser4 is not vulnerable to this, though.
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>Bye,
>    Oleg
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can you say more about performance of v3 and v4 at this task?

I suppose I shouldn't ask Hendrik how often he does this in the course 
of his usual usage patterns....;-)