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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: slow external firewire drive
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:42:25 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> I did not hear of a serious performance regression with that kernel yet. 
> I tested 2.6.14-rc3 and -rc5 myself but they should behave like -rc4.

Yes, for unrelated reasons, I've done u320 testing with -rc5.  I can
actually get it up to 320MB/s if I read and write entirely from the disk
cache, so I think our current throughput is OK in the generic systems.

James