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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: Disk performance
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>I tried to dump a file system to a DLT tape.
>The tape is cable of 10MB/s but I only got about 1600 KB/s
>To find out if it was the tape I tried to dump to /dev/null instead, but
>i still only get 1665 KB/s

There have been mention about team and cstream, both are in the ports,
to buffer disk read and send larger blocks to the tape.

Olivier

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