Re: Optimizing disk-I/O [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release]

2005-02-15 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:46:56 -0500, Adam Goode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Mac OS X has a similar thing, with a pretty simple description of how > they do it: > > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HotFile Also all those things are part of darwin i think (or IOW, we can look

Re: Optimizing disk-I/O [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release]

2005-02-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:56:14 CST, Linas Vepstas said: > Now I like this idea. It need not have anything to do with startup, > or with any particular program or distro whatsoever. Rather, one > would have a daemon keeping track of disk i/o patterns, and constantly > trying to figure out if there

Re: Optimizing disk-I/O [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release]

2005-02-15 Thread Adam Goode
Mac OS X has a similar thing, with a pretty simple description of how they do it: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HotFile Adam On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:56 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:43:29AM +0100, Diego Calleja was heard to remark: > > > > A

Optimizing disk-I/O [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release]

2005-02-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:43:29AM +0100, Diego Calleja was heard to remark: > > Also, it analyzes all those io "logs" and defragments I dislike hearing/reading about what XP does, since its probably patented, and I don't want that shadow hanging over Linux. I assume that the following simple i