Hello! On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:04:52AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Yes, it is slow, but overal disk throughput of 7M/sec suggests this is > > old drive. Old drives tend to have worse seeking speed than today's drives. > But how much seeking is done on one 650 MB file that's been written onto > an empty partition? I presume, not too much. 162.5*2 seeks. (that's right, 2 seeks per each 4M of data) This figure is for reading. Writing is more complex due to journal.
Bye,
Oleg
