Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:25:42 -0600 From: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: disk sector ordering (Was: Reading/writing /usr/ports is VERY slow) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981111002542.00752be4@bugs.us.dell.com>
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:08:15 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert said: >Specifically, most modern disks record tracks in reverse sector >order, and as soon as you seek to the track, they start reading >(and buffering data) until they hit the sector in the track that >you were actually seeking to find. Sorry about taking the side-track with such an old message, but I've been trying to figure out what you said here and I just don't get it. Can you explain this? Is there some reason you want to avoid the concurrency you normally achieve by having the sectors in the normal order? - Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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