linux-kernel - Re: weird throughput on write to SATA disk

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Message-ID: <da824cf30810131435v6756ed7cg264bbb0d09c0ac08@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:35:11 -0700
From:	"Grant Grundler" <grundler@...gle.com>
To:	"kenneth johansson" <ken@...jo.org>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: weird throughput on write to SATA disk

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Grant Grundler <grundler@...gle.com> wrote:
...
> Can you try "dd oflag=direct if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"?

sorry...meant to type "if=/dev/zero"...I don't recall if /dev/null
will work the same.

grant
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