Am 05.01.2012 03:02, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:01, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Understanding how the file abstraction works is to my mind a question of
> basic culture around here. As a piece of engineering design balancing
> functional elegance with practicality it's a wonderful thing to
> contemplate and a key element of the success of the Unix model,
I agree. Thanks for the explanation, links and pointers, Patrick.
but having in the year 2012 a Corei7 Quad with 16 GB RAM which is
freezing the KDE-Desktop while you rsync large files to a USB
drive is a little bit unacepptable - and that is what happens
since a longer time if you read data froma real fast RAID10 and
write it to a USB-drive