Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:41:18 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: disk throughput |
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> write-behind is enabled. I'm not religious about write-behind. > Yes, there's a small chance that the disk will decide to write a > commit block in front of the data (which is at lower LBAs). But
Well, you're talking about performance here. In my simple tests, the write cache has a major impact (twofold) on linear writes (just dd to a partition), so your milage may vary a lot depending on the cache configuration. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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