You are correct, sir. Read times move at a nice clip - but untar/writes
seem to get cut almost in half. Just an observation - as I do not have
any solid data analysis atm - just a matter of scratching my skull
whilst I listen to what seems to be some serious HD churning.

-Jeff

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Jeff Grant <jgrant@voicesignal.com> wrote:
>> These are two articles that indeed led me to believe that XFS was the
>> way to go - and here, I'm also experiencing some dreadful performance -
>> tar/untar performance specifically.
> 
> Can you define "dreadful"?  Are you seeing the same results (fast
> reads but slow writes) as Ow?
> 
> -Richard