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Date:      Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:34:19 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org, "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Subject:   Re: pitiful performance of an SATA150 drive
Message-ID:  <200603011634.19617.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <4405EFE9.6030807@elischer.org>
References:  <200603010505.k2155HfQ003205@aldan.algebra.com> <20060301144124.GA14411@uk.tiscali.com> <4405EFE9.6030807@elischer.org>

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ÓÅÒÅÄÁ 01 ÂÅÒÅÚÅÎØ 2006 14:03, Julian Elischer ÷É ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:
> I believe that linux uses bufferring in štheir 'raw' disks so that you
> may be actually doing larger
> reads and writes than you know.. (of course my knowledge of Linux is a
> bit old so
> they may have changed that)

Let's not get distracted. dd using bs=1m is still limited to 7Mb/s on writing.

	-mi



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