> So you get the 5 minutes down to what? 3-4? A little under 2, actually. Most of which is spent writing like crazy to disk.
I've also been tinkering with the idea of creating the disk image in storage and then writing a utility to write it out using full track writes. I don't know if it would actually be any better than DDR (or hey, write the input to the pipeable version of DDR...hmm), but it seemed like it would be interesting to try. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390