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direct and indirect block pointers count as Bimm metadata to kfs,
so those writes are synchronous and as slow as the device.

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> "For metadata intensive benchmarks this improves performance by more than a f
> actor of two when compared to the conventional syncronous write approach"
> 
> hget http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE-TR-254-95.ps

except that extracting a 200MB file is anything but metadata intensive.
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