Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Roland McGrath]

> I have found that compiling is a disk-bound activity since about
> 1988, on every system I've used...When I build a Linux kernel, the
> disk is continuously bumping along.

You are atypical.  On my system, for any given build I do, all the files
fit in core and are already in the cache if I've done a previous compile
recently, and the only disk activity is writing of new bits that the
computation rarely blocks on.