On 1/10/06, Bill Rugolsky Jr. <brugolsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:05:48PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On 1/9/06, goemon@xxxxxxxxx <goemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is ext2/3 the only filesystem which does this? There are good reasons to > > > try to keep allocations toward the beginning of the partition, because i/o > > > rates are _much_ higher (2x, 3x or more) due to higher angular velocity > > > of the drive platters. > Greg, > I think that you replied (privately) to the wrong person. :-) You are > correct, drives are divided into zones. There's a program bundled > with bonnie++ called "zcav" that will measure the I/O rate discrepancies. > It should be saw-tooth, since the gaps grow until a new block can be > inserted. Thanks! Just shows that even if you're right ... through the use of a webmail frontend you can still be a moron. :) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list