On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I've measured (very roughly) on a modern recent P4
>
> 70 MB/s dd from raw disk
> 59 MB/s dd from 4 GB file in filesystem on disk
> 57 MB/s dd from 'raw disk' in domU
>
> So in my case it was slower, but not a big deal.

What filesystem was the image in the 2nd and 3rd case on?
Do you happen to have numbers for ffs, ffsv2, lfs, fat?
Would be interesting...


  - Hubert