Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 04:45:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, blizbor wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: >> >> The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. >> Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s. > >Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ? > >In context you wrote, I've got rather curious results (maybe due to >daulty measurement routines in tar). >I've made >tar clvf /dev/null --totals >and got as follows: > >for ReiserFS: 53MB/s >for ext2fs 27-28 MB/s
2 words: write caching
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