On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Noo... you should always sync twice: disk then network (:
( and anyone who says 3 times is even older than me! )
So it's my age eh? So is why I always unmount my usb pens like...
sync;sync;sync;umount /dev/sdc
I just said sync instead of sync;sync
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 17:19:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k
onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)
However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec)
time dd
John Carter wrote, On 03/03/09 11:02:
Sigh! Since I can think of several places where a gut feel for these
numbers will help me in the work context, eg. I'm in the process of
spec'ing a server for a build system... it will help me to get a grip
on the current realitys of shifting data around.
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:02:08 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
[loads of interesting real data]
Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are MegaBytes?
My brain hurts!
Steve
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