Monster IDE Drives

[Roger Oberholtzer]

My wife was looking over my shoulder on this one and asked if you were
truly a hip guy. Tired of that, I guess, huh?


On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 17:34, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >>By "directory fiddling", you mean disk seek time, right?
> > 
> > 
> > Probably. But it is communication with the disk of other than actual file
> > content. I would imagine that the disk would also seek when writing data. So
> > it is more than that. Could in fact only be a firewire driver thing on Linux
> > and not the disk at all.
> 
> "Directory fiddling" can be really slow. Last night I was moving some 
> stuff via a USB 1.1 pocket drive. I did 'mkdir foo'. The command prompt 
> didn't return for a *full minute*. Thought I was gonna have a coronary. 
> It's a VFAT volume which may explain some of it.
> 
> Michael
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-users mailing list
> Linux-users at smtp.linux-sxs.org
> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users