Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:05:05 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> said: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:24:58PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:18:44PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > In a drive with multiple platters and therefore multiple heads, you > > > could read/write from all heads simultaneously. Or is that how they > > > already do it? > > > > fwih, there was once a drive that did this. the problem is track alignment. > > these days, you'd need seperate motors for each head.
> I think they now all do it.
No.
> Haven't you noticed that drives with many > platters are always faster than their cousins with fewer platters ? And > I don't speak about access time, but about sequential reads.
Have you ever wondered how they squeeze 16 or more platters into that slim enclosure? If you take them apart, the question evaporates: There are 2 or 3 platters in them, no more. The "many platters" are an artifact of BIOS' "disk geometry" description. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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