> > read:write, ie no read preference. A silly value of 0 would give you
> > write preference, always.
> How much is it going to hurt a filesystem like ext[23] if that value is
> set to zero while doing large streaming writes -- something like
> (almost) uncompressed video at ten to twenty meg a second, for
> gigabytes?
It depends, if you've got 2 video streams to the same
filesystem and one needs to read a block bitmap in order
to allocate more disk blocks you lose...
regards,
Rik
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