On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:56, Anarky wrote: > like I said in another mail if I copy fat32 to linux partition > (don't know what kind exactly, the default installed with mdk 9.1) the > speed is constantly fast. But that is one side of it: that copy speed & > dropdown. > As I understand these tests (hdparm -tT ) don't have anything to do > with the partition type (actually at least on hda I've got like 7 or 8 > partitions) ... so maybe there's a problem in general in how my linux > works with my hdds?
This is actually more of an inefficiency of FAT/FAT32/NTFS partitions and structures - not with GNU/linux; always bear in mind that FAT/FAT32/NTFS file systems are more than 10 years old and haven't been updated as Microsoft doesn't feel it necessary to do so...at least until 2005... -- Mon Aug 11 20:10:01 EST 2003 20:10:01 up 7 days, 23:58, 1 user, load average: 3.01, 2.24, 2.01 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.' -- M.D. Epstein
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