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>
> you can change FBSD to async
>
> then watch your fs scramble during a power failure
>
> no big deal, it's only your data.
>
you are wrong, he talked about copying BIG files, and this shouldn't make 
a difference contrary to small files.

there is something wrong there as i routinely get 70MB/s on my SATA server