Hi; Do you test in other file system? Like xfs or jfs? You can use the "time" command to get the exate time: # time cp /pathsource/file8g /pathdest/ Post here yours results. []s ________________________________________________ Renato de Oliveira Diogo Bacharel em Ciência da Computação UNESP - Bauru LPIC1 - Linux Professional Institute Certification - Nível 1 renato.diogo at gmail.com renato.diogo at yahoo.com.br On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:11, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090121/29f922d7/attachment-0005.html>