Re: pitiful performance of an SATA150 drive

From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx_at_aldan.algebra.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:34:19 -0500
ÓÅÒÅÄÁ 01 ÂÅÒÅÚÅÎØ 2006 14:03, Julian Elischer ÷É ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:
> I believe that linux uses bufferring in štheir 'raw' disks so that you
> may be actually doing larger
> reads and writes than you know.. (of course my knowledge of Linux is a
> bit old so
> they may have changed that)

Let's not get distracted. dd using bs=1m is still limited to 7Mb/s on writing.

	-mi
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