| Date | Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:15:18 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: elevator algorithm bug in ll_rw_blk.c |
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According to Martin Mares: > Chip: > > But that's a *one-way* elevator. Ideal elevators are two-way, aren't they? > > Using two-way elevators for disk block sorting is probably highly > suboptimal since most disks are painfully slow when reading blocks > backwards.
I get the joke, but I've got to think that there's nothing particularly directional about track-to-track seek speed. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "There -- we made them swerve slightly!" //MST3K
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