disk throughput

[Atom Smasher]

i've got this running in one term:
 	systat -iostat 1
and this in another term:
 	dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=123456 | md5

apparently the system only knows about throughput of mounted disks?

is that a bug or a feature?


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