Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:53:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Rajeev Atluri <> | Subject | Re: Logging disk access |
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> > Wow! > > It would be astonishing to have this collect access patters for a few > weeks. Then have a process that finds sets of blocks that are often read > togeather, then finaly a defragger that takes block orders.
win98 has this *feature*, a little different in that it's application specific. (Eg: run Netscape and see what blocks are accessed, defrag all of them for linear access the next time)
Well, MS didn't come up with this kinda nice idea either... intel had an application for win95 that did this and MS *integrated* it into their OS :)
and so on.....
Rajeev
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