[nylug-talk] questions about /dev/null

[Judd Maltin]

Hi Folks,

I'm curious about writing to /dev/null

Is there any reason writing a stream of ASCII to /dev/null would be
faster than copying the same file to /dev/null ?

And then int he context of MySQL, why would it be faster to do a
mysqldump into /dev/null than to do a mysqlhotcopy into /dev/null -
faster by 1/2 the time.

Odd, odd.  Is it inodes?  For some reason not reading smoothly across
the disk?

confused.  Idears?

-judd