On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. > I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am > hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. I don't think it will speed things up much. 8GB files are mostly hardware throughput and ext3/4 will actually be slower because the journalling etc are to make it more robust but at a speed cost. You would probably see better speed by going to ext2. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"