On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:
>
> > What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk?
>
> Sequentially. Disks run an order of magnitude faster if they
> have sequential data. Don't get too fancy with the ordering
> since the dis
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:
> What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk?
Sequentially. Disks run an order of magnitude faster if they have
sequential data. Don't get too fancy with the ordering since the disk
driver will just reorder it for you.
Doug White
What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk? For
example, if using the character device driver to write directly to a disk,
is filling a track quicker than filling the same sector on each platter
(ie the same column of sectors in a cylinger)? If filling a track is
quicker, is
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