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From: Jawahar Tadipatri <jawa2502@gmail.com>
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Subject: Regarding IO to disk
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Hi Folks,Can anyone please let me know the average/typical time taken for
completing one IO operation (read and write) to disk?
More specifically, time taken for writing a string to a file.

Thanks a load,
Jawahar