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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:23:46 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: disk throughput
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On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Numbers.  The machine has 768 megs; the disk is IDE with a two meg cache.
> The workload consists of untarring, tarring, diffing and removing kernel
> trees. This filesystem is 21 gigs, and has 176 block groups.

Does that IDE disk run with its write cache enabled or disabled?
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