linux-kernel - Re: Mismatch between hdaprm and sdparm output

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1154911344.3054.153.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:42:23 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Keith Owens <kaos@....com.au>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mismatch between hdaprm and sdparm output

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:32 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> NEC Versa S5200 laptop with FUJITSU MHV2080B SATA disk.  Kernel
> 2.6.16.21-0.13-smp (suselinux 10.1) using ata_piix.  hdparm and sdparm
> give inconsistent results, which one should I believe?  My main concern
> is write caching (XFS filesystem).

well write caching you should be able to benchmark easily.. does, say,
dbench or tiobench show any difference ?


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/