Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for | Date | 25 Apr 2003 12:38:57 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200304251748.h3PHmjQd012895@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> By author: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Of bigger concern is that the inter-block gap is only 0.5 (or maybe 0.75 > inches, the memories are dim ;) - and you need to be able to stop and then get > back up to speed in that distance (or decelerate, rewind, and get a running > start). >
No, you don't. You just need to make sure you don't have the head active while you overshoot. Performance will *definitely* suffer if you don't, though, since you'd have to rewind.
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