Followup to: <20011031155934.A18608@werewolf.able.es>
By author: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Did you noticed that the ext3 was at 20MHz, and ext2 was at 40MHz ? I
> will reformat the 20MHz drive and make 2 slices, one ext2 and one ext3
> to be sure not to compare apples and oranges...
>
Doesn't work. Low block numbers (outer edge of the disk) is
invariably faster than high block numbers (inner edge of the disk) on
all drives that are even close to recent.
-hpa
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