Interestingley, yes. There is about 360Kbyte/sec of activity on the disk
with 99/100% usage according to systat.

 As far as how nested, it isn't. I was making the directory right in the
top level of where it was mounted. The root of that drive has 4 folders
including the test one that I used to get the time.

itai at replic d0t net

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Brian Buhrow wrote:

> 	During your 11 seconds of delay, is the drive active?
> (I assume this is on an ffs filesystem, right?)
> Are you trying to create directories inside directories which are really
> large already?
> -Brian
>