spare:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/reiser/bleh bs=1M count=2k
2048+0 records in
2048+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 47.2142 seconds, 45.5 MB/s

real    0m47.239s
user    0m0.012s
sys     0m8.685s
spare:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ext3/bleh bs=1M count=2k
2048+0 records in
2048+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 50.766 seconds, 42.3 MB/s

real    0m50.811s
user    0m0.012s
sys     0m14.333s