On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> I don't think that should be required actually. The killer on M/O disks
> is seek time, and to an extent rotational latency (its 3 trips round a
> cheaper M/O disk to rewrite a sector). If anything clustering writes to
> the same track should be a big win.
I believe the impetus to the cluster patch is not to address parformance,
but because without it a media error on the MO causes a system failure.
That seems a good reason to put in the patch, and you can certainly test
it with and without, just be sure to sync() before trying the standard
code ;-)
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