From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW - more info - maybe extended partitions
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 01:58:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001114015834.A24158@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00111322024100.20267@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> <NBBBJGOOMDFADJDGDCPHCEJECJAA.law@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <NBBBJGOOMDFADJDGDCPHCEJECJAA.law@sgi.com>; from law@sgi.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:47:27PM -0800
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:47:27PM -0800, LA Walsh wrote:
> Some further information in response to a private email, I did hdparm -ti
> under both
> 2216 and 2217 -- they are identical -- this may be something weird
> w/extended partitions...
What nonsense. There is nothing special with extended partitions.
Partitions influence the logical view on the disk, but not I/O.
(But the outer rim of a disk is faster than the inner side.)
Moreover, you report elapsed times
0:27, 0:22, 0:24, 0:28, 0:21, 0:24, 0:27
where is this performance hit?
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[not found] <00111322024100.20267@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>
2000-11-13 23:47 ` IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW - more info - maybe extended partitions LA Walsh
2000-11-14 0:58 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2000-11-14 7:21 ` LA Walsh
2000-11-15 0:16 ` LA Walsh
2000-11-15 0:22 ` Andre Hedrick
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