Yes, the concept exists on Linux. You need to run the hdparm utility.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Matrigali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Derby Development" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:04 AM Subject: Re: alligned Vs Non Alligned log writes .. > If possible could the people submitting the results let us know > the type of disk on the machine. At least scsi vs. ide. Speed of > disk would be nice too. And at least on windows machines if > "write cache" is enabled for the disk or not - I don't know if this > concept exists on linux.. > > Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > > > > > > >>>>It would be great if some one can run this test on other platforms and > >>>>post the results to the list. > > > > > > On Suse Linux, with an old Dell machine (2cpu 733Mhz Pentium) I see no > > real difference between aligned and non-aligned writes. > > I used Sun's 1.4.2 & 1.5.0 and IBM's 1.4.2 vms > > > > Dan.
