Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 1999 21:44:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Matthew Jacob <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling |
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> > Because of this, rotational latency now means nothing either. > > This is another buzzword gone obsolete. > > Not quite: it still matters when reading.
But becuase you don't really know location from index for any particular block it's hard to figure out how you'd try and do block placement for optimal rotational latency.
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