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From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: iozone results
Date: 4 Apr 1994 02:37:25 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
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My guess:
The writes are faster than the reads because they are being cached
and not physically ''written''.  However, the reads must actually access
the disk.

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