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Subject: Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <42761FA7.1030500@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
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>>I'll be honest here, I don't care much if the speed difference between 
>>4.X and 5.X is measureable, or whatever.  What I find is a little 
>>telling of an issue somewhere, is that READS are slower than WRITES! 
>>This is totally bogus to me - [...]
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>If the disk has bad sectors or other hardware issues, this is not
>an atypical result.
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The drives I have report this using SMART and the counters stay at zero. 
Yes, we've seen the counters go nonzero when problems do exist.

Pete