[tech] Meito

[Duncan Sargeant]

Grahame Bowland wrote on Fri July 11, at 13:47 +0800:
> Yes, backup to mussel was the plan. Linux will suck less because it
> won't be using pio to talk to the disks - we're getting horrid
> performance out of the thing.
> 
> We *should* be able to get 30-40Mb/sec reads from it, we're actually
> getting 1Mb/sec or so. Even without async writes, it's still going to be
> better under Linux.

After FS overheads, how do you get 30-40MB/s out of IDE on linux? 
I've only managed something in the region of 10, except when doing a
raidhotadd to a mirrored set, which of course is a linear copy.

,dunc