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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:28:36 +0200
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To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>

On Friday 08 June 2001 00:23, Steven Lembark wrote:
> > Proportionally, how much slower is it? 50%? 25%? 12%?
> > less than 1% slower?
> > Does it really matter?
>
> For things like /, /tmp or primary swap even a few % can
> make a difference (especially on newer drives that use
> variable sector allocation).  This is something the system
> hits frequently with quite a bit of data.

However if you use two partitions at opposite ends of the drive then the=20
seek times will kill performance...

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