Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:37:25 -0000 (GMT) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | RE: elevator algorithm considered irrelevant |
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On 17-Nov-98 Larry McVoy wrote: > The reason is > that the file system's allocation policy, read ahead policy, meta data > placement, etc., all skew the data.
i expected you to jump into this little debate about 3 days ago :-)
could swap partitions benefit from some reappraisal of the algorithm used for sorting disk accesses? placing at the fastest part of the disk? puttling in the centre and being deliberately unfair at servicing disk requests form swap? that sort of thing -- simon
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