Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:26:24 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 |
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I really think Rik has it right here. In particular, an MP3 player needs to be able to say, I have X milliseconds of buffer so make my worst case latency X milliseconds. The number of requests is the wrong metric, because the time required per request depends on disk geometry, disk caching, etc.
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