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Re:Encrypted Backup Shootout by bitminer on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:34PM (#25623262)
Question: did you unmount/mount the source filesystem between tests? When the size of data is less than RAM you are measuring cache speed, not so much disk speed. (And yes I realize that you have SSDs.)
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Re:Encrypted Backup Shootout by andrewchambers on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:12PM (#25641214)
source filesystem was also ramfs for these.
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