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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> I know phk has been looking at spin-up optimisatiosn..
> (e.g. if a drive takes more than a set time to  come ready, assumen it was
> spinning up and schedule a 'sync'  to catch it while it's already going..

Actually The thing I did was an utterly disgusting hack "sleep-hack" that
assumes that if the disk went to sleep, it will wake up with a different
geometry.  (workaround for a BIOS-bug).


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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.