svnadmin load of the first 500 revisions of The Subversion Source Code Repository (from a local-disk-stored dumpfile, with the --bdb-txn-nosync flag for BDB). Old FSFS number provided for comparison. BDB FSFS +---------+---------+ NFS | 39.226s | 99.957s | +---------+---------+ LOCAL | 47.263s | 65.633s | +---------+---------+