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SubjectRe: elevator algorithm bug in ll_rw_blk.c
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> "unfair"
> that sounds like an opportunity to me place frequently used blocks at the
> centre of the disk and they will be fetched faster

In the old days, when Unix filesystems kept all the inodes in one place,
some people did put the superblock and inodes in the middle of the disk,
for just that reason. This was usually handled in the disk driver, rather
than the filesystem, though.

--Tim Smith


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