Hello. Just to followup on myself, here are the numbers for the previous script with: NetBSD-6 (raid1, ffsV1, no softdep and no log, atop wd(4) disks) %time sh /var/tmp/filespeed.sh Starting run -- creating and destroying 5000 files... 35.3u 73.3s 2:59.00 60.7% 0+0k 30+20308io 0pf+0w