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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:53
Message-Id: loom.20100930T151248-164@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed? by Adam Carter
1 Adam Carter <adamcarter3 <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > Taring my mp3 collection from 2.5in 500MB internal sata drive
5 > (sda) to esata 3.5in 500MB drive (sdb) and it seems slow.
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8 Well, there are multiple avenues to nail down your specific issues,
9 most documented or hinted at in the archives of this list.....
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11 Here is some fuel for thought, on a higher plain:
12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
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15 So you have at least (2) issues.
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17 1. Your specific hardware
18 http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
19 bonnie is also in portage
20 [eix bonnie]
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22 2. The longer view of increasing
23 file system performance, particularly
24 in a distributed resources environment:
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26 (CEPHGS, GlusterFS, BTRFS, others?) is the subject
27 of a hot debate, probably overdue for the devs
28 or the brilliant, on this list, to update
29 us commoners? (here goes another religious war!)
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31 hth,
32 James