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Petri Helenius wrote:

> Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount 
> options? Async comes to mind first.

a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with 
asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a 
crash doesn't arise.
b) asynchronous metadata updates wouldn't have any performance benefit 
on a dd if=/dev/zero of=tstfile.
c) please cut down your quotes, and write your answers below or between 
the quoted text, instead of the outlook text-above-fullquote style. thanks.

mkb.