* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > 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.
That's why I mentioned big iron: I imagine on a high-performance batch processing system a job would read files, do some crunching, and write out the result. Then the next job comes in and does the same, and so on. On a system like that it may make sense to optimize file placement (disclaimer: I never rode a big iron, I don't know if they actually do that). On a system where multiple processes read and write lots of files, all at the same time, optimization like that is more or less pointless; FS is optimized for best average access time instead. I don't think optimizing file layout would make any difference in this case, so no, the argument doesn't apply to systems like Linux. Dima -- I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to replace the printcap. If you change your mind later, run -- magicfilter config script
