Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:03:35 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> >   - 1989: Amiga 500, 7.14 MHz 68000, expensive SCSI disk, 675 KB/s
> >   - 1992: Amiga 4000, 25 MHz 68040, IDE, 1.8 MB/s (SCSI with 5 MB/s should ha
> ve
> >     been possible)
> >   - 1998: CHRP, 200 MHz 604e, UW-SCSI, 17 MB/s
> > 
> > The third CPU is ca. 25 times faster than the second (both in BogoMIPS as
> > kernel cross-compiles). The disk isn't 25 faster, though.
> 
> %  dc
> 3 k 17 .675 / p
> 25.185
> ^D
> 
> Huh?

You're comparing the _third_ disk to the _first_. If you want to do that,
please take note that the 68040 is a lot faster than the 68000, too.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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