people made a huge deal out of bufferbloat on networks a while back, but it seems it's taking a while for people to make a big deal of it on file systems so in default config, mdadm+ext4 seems to load disks down with like 8 seconds of writes weather tijuana quiet in here Yup "a little TOO quiet" any updates on the German front? Last I heard, they'd surrendered. :-) So Christmas is nearly here...