Jens Axboe <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 17 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It seems that the many-writers-to-different-disks workloads don't happen > > very often. We know this because > > > > a) The 2.4 performance is utterly awful, and I never saw anybody > > complain and > > Talk to some of the people that used DVD-RAM devices (or other > excruciatingly slow writers) on their system, and they would disagree > violently :-) I hit this recently while doing backups to a slow external USB disk. The system was quite unusable (some commands blocked for over a minute) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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