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From: "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Subject: Re: write is faster whan seek?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:38:21 -0400
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Dmitri Monakhov wrote:

Could it be that in the first case you will have merges, thus creating
fewer/larger I/O requests? Running iostat -x during the two runs, and
watching the output is a good first place to start.

Alan