Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:09:44 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deadline io scheduler |
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > read:write, ie no read preference. A silly value of 0 would give you > > write preference, always.
> How much is it going to hurt a filesystem like ext[23] if that value is > set to zero while doing large streaming writes -- something like > (almost) uncompressed video at ten to twenty meg a second, for > gigabytes?
It depends, if you've got 2 video streams to the same filesystem and one needs to read a block bitmap in order to allocate more disk blocks you lose...
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