davros ~ # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/nfs0023/testfile0 bs=1k count=1 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.7511e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s real 18m11.063s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s