4 ms·

How slow was that?

• dspillett 2y ago
  If it is pulling a filesystem from tape into memory and booting from that, it could be pretty quick. Reading sequentially from tape, if you are already at the right location which is easy if that location is the start of the tape, isn't particularly slow at all – non-sequential access is where tape storage becomes very slow due to massive latency in the physical mechanisms.