> > Gladiator is mkfs'ing away.. it's really cool to wait for a 700+gb > > partition to mkfs :) > > what filesystem? ext3. yeah, we all know Reiserfs makes filesystems substantially faster (maybe over twice as fast in some cases); but from the benchmarks I've seen, it's usually a shade slower than ext3 for most general use. (and in any case, most humans aren't likely to notice a difference in the speed of different filesystems.) Carl. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com