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by chungy 3242 days ago
That warning made me want to try it on my hard disk just to see how long it would take...

It was only a couple minutes. That's a bit disappointing.
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sleepychu 3242 days ago
SSD or spinning platter?
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chungy 3242 days ago
Spinning platter. ZFS with compression is probably helping that.
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panic 3242 days ago
Your OS is probably caching the file at the virtual memory layer, so it doesn't even have to hit the filesystem at all.
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sillysaurus3 3242 days ago
A good lesson not to try to guess where the bottlenecks in a program will be. :)
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wereHamster 3242 days ago
mount -o sync :)
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