On Aug 21, 11:58pm, rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk (Richard Earnshaw) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Heads up: Thumb code working on NetBSD

| > Have you tried to mount a 2TB ext2 filesystem on Linux?
| 
| Nope, are you really suggesting that this is slow because the mount_extfs 
| (or whatever) program is slow? or because the kernel is slow?  If the 
| latter, then it's irrelevant to this discussion.
| 
Probably because the kernel is slow. What I am saying is that there is
a limit to the amount of time a user will find tolerable even for one-off
commands.

christos