Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 Apr 2003 23:15:57 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2003-04-13 at 19:03, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > OTOH you can come up with scenarios like, say, a DBMS doing 16K page > aligned IO to raw devices where you might see big gains from making sure > those 16K chunks didn't cross a physical cylinder boundary.
You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.
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