ext3 filesystem performance issues

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:50:45 -0700,
  John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
> Your cow-orker is (mostly) wrong! These failures are a shell 
> limitation, and have nothing to do with the filesystem itself.

It's actually an OS limitation and a patch to fix it has been accepted for
2.6.23. So look for a change in the not too distant future.