Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system like Linux? It aint DOS. Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement.
I wonder ... :-) Single drive is worse than multi drive, I agree. Cheers On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:54:20AM +0200, dgabi wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:14:32 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When your system switches from reading in a binary from /bin to > > writing a pid file in /var, obviously, there'll be head movement. > > If /bin sits on one end of the disk, and /var on another, there'll > > be more head movement; if the binary and pid file in question live > > right next to each other there'll be less head movement. I don't > > see anything specific to linux kernel in that. > > and what if all your /var files are all over yaur big / > partition ( if / is not splited in pieces ) ? > will be a lot of head movement. > you cannot know that all your /var files will be nearby /bin or > /$whatever files . > anyway i agree that a single drive is a bit of performance loss. > the major hack that can be done is to put swap partiton at the begining > of drive (first partiton). The head reads faster from inner edge. > i am an adept of spliting drive in patitions depending of sistem's job. > this ca save you from a lot of trouble. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
