Very low disk performance on 5.x

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <42761FA7.1030500 at centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
>
>I'll be honest here, I don't care much if the speed difference between 
>4.X and 5.X is measureable, or whatever.  What I find is a little 
>telling of an issue somewhere, is that READS are slower than WRITES! 
>This is totally bogus to me - [...]

If the disk has bad sectors or other hardware issues, this is not
an atypical result.

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