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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 4k sector drives
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723172838.3b40a745@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007231802.11491.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>

Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300
Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> écrivait:

> It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned
> partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar
> output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the
> shell prompt returns)

Extracting a linux tarball creates lots of very small files, so it is
expected to perform very badly on unaligned partitions. But I suppose
that copying the tarball itself to the disk could be only slightly
slower than normal.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23 15:02 4k sector drives Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-23 15:28 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-23  9:19 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21 10:33 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21 12:21 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23  6:09 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23  9:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-23 10:42     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 10:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-23 12:41         ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 10:59     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23 12:56       ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 13:10       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 13:38         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-07-23 13:50           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 14:13             ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-07-24  8:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-24 21:07         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-24 22:35           ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-25 15:33             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-21  7:53 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21  9:14 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-21 10:33   ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-20 18:58 Michael Monnerie
2010-07-20 20:30 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-20 20:39 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-20 21:34   ` Michael Monnerie

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