superfetch

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai]

-On [20050915 04:23], David Cuthbert (dacut at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>True, but sector-only writes are generally true of hard drives -- thanks 
>to caching and smaller sector sizes, though, you generally don't notice 
>this.

Right.  And most of these flash storage devices for USB have no cache to
speak of at all compared to the typical 8MB on hard disks nowadays (S/ATA as
well as SCSI).

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