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What MAY hurt, also for large writes, are the meta-data operations while writing the file. (e.g. the file-size changes, journaling ...)
But i haven't tested that and can't say for sure how much that hurts.
It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the shell prompt returns)
With aligned partition, performance is normal.
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Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300
Khelben Blackstaff <[email protected]> écrivait:
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It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the shell prompt returns)
Extracting a linux tarball creates lots of very small files, so it is expected to perform very badly on unaligned partitions. But I suppose that copying the tarball itself to the disk could be only slightly slower than normal.
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