Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Ludovic Courtès]

> But anyway, for a performance comparison between Hurd and Linux to be
> meaningful, one would have to do it on the same or at least pretty
> similar hardware. I just wanted to point out that I wouldn't expect
> all kinds of heavy disk mangling to necessarily imply heavy cpu
> activity.

Well, that's a very subjective observation but on the same machine under
Linux, doing the same kind of operation (unpacking stuff), X looks much
more 'reactive' than what I actually noticed under the Hurd.

Cheers,
Ludovic.