> I'm acutely aware of how much slowing down a few simple syscalls by just a little bit I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a NAS isn't slowing thi

> I'm acutely aware of how much slowing down a few simple syscalls by just a little bit I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a NAS isn't slowing things down "just a little bit". It'll be more on the order of a million times slower, for those operations. It's always nice to keep this popular latency table in mind: http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers