Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > I think you should use /dev/random, not /dev/zero unless hardware > compression is disabled in order to have more realistic figures.
This wouldn't be a good idea, /dev/random or /dev/urandom are just too slow in generating random data. To test the nativ speed of the drive creating a file from /dev/urandom and writing this file then from tmpfs or a fast disk to the drive would be much better. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
