From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P1J9x-0000Br-0I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C754E086E; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5666BE086E for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167D51B4179 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.723 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.723 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.613, BAYES_05=-1.11] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iRDNKyJ4CIf8 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB7A1B40C2 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1J9F-0002f7-Ng for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:26:09 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:26:09 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:26:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100922 Gentoo/2.0.7 SeaMonkey/2.0.7) X-Archives-Salt: 2654b1db-43af-4659-9c8f-5ff454332a10 X-Archives-Hash: ec2d4bb4842cb271294de9cef9fbaeeb Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > Taring my mp3 collection from 2.5in 500MB internal sata drive > (sda) to esata 3.5in 500MB drive (sdb) and it seems slow. Well, there are multiple avenues to nail down your specific issues, most documented or hinted at in the archives of this list..... Here is some fuel for thought, on a higher plain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree So you have at least (2) issues. 1. Your specific hardware http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ bonnie is also in portage [eix bonnie] 2. The longer view of increasing file system performance, particularly in a distributed resources environment: (CEPHGS, GlusterFS, BTRFS, others?) is the subject of a hot debate, probably overdue for the devs or the brilliant, on this list, to update us commoners? (here goes another religious war!) hth, James