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SubjectRe: Drive performance bottleneck
Ian Godin wrote:
> [...]
> Definitely have been able to repeat that here, so the SG driver
> definitely appears to be broken. At least I'm glad I am not going
> insane, I was starting to wonder :)
>
> I'll run some more tests with O_DIRECT and such things, see if I can
> figure out what the REAL max speed is.

FYI there was a patch running around last April that made a new option
for "dd" to make it use O_DIRECT. You can get it here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108135935629589&w=2

Unfortunately this hasn't made it into coreutils. IIRC there were issues
about dd being multi-platform and the way O_DIRECT was done in other
systems.

Anyway, you can patch dd yourself and have a tool for debugging with
O_DIRECT. I hope this helps,

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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