Hopefully nobody is still saying this. In the old days, when
processors were slow and DMA didn't exist, copies were bad,
but I don't think that any systems built in the last decade
suffer from this disadvantage.
People were still saying this when I worked for the idiots at Sybase
about a decade ago, and they (we) kept putting our feet in it when
our victims would try that out, only to realize that scribbling on
a filesystem was considerablty faster (if somewhat less reliable)
than scribbling on raw partitions.
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david parsons \bi/ Fast or Safe, take yer choice.
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