On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The specific application was this: > > - extract a kernel tarball > - "make distclean" > - cp -al the resulting tree > - apply a patch to each tree > - do a diff between the trees > - delete all files > > ... repeat something like 20,000 times.
Right, thanks. Certainly extracting a tarball can be a surprising challenge for some filesystems. And you remind me that of course, to the extent that a load is about metadata (lots of creates for example), tmpfs can hardly lose since its metadata never goes out to swap. But there is plenty of data in your test above. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
