Re: The state of Linux FireWire

Thanks for the info. Do you have any performance numbers for FireWire 400
under Linux. Also, what kind of read speeds do you get (400 & 800)?

I have not used any firewire 400 drives. I just mounted one of the drives
and did "cat home.tgz > /dev/null", and vmstat started off around 75 MB/sec,
and slowed down to between 53-59 MB/sec.

steve


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