i take it that you were joking
this sucker runs on quad xeons and ultrasparcs and gazillion buses and fj massivly
parallel sparcs and nasa clusters and finding out the geometry of a disk is
"beyond our knowledge"
what is the slowest part of linux (hark, i can hear larry limbering up at the back
of the auditorium)
i would be most surprised if it wasn't disk accesses - just physically getting the
blocks on and off the disk
anything which speeded that out by a pico second is going to pay dividends all
around. on this list people talk about shaving a nano seconds off secheduling and
what have you. getting the data on to and off the disk is measured in milliseconds.
"beyond our knowledge"
i bet if some disk manufacturer (are you listening quantum, seagate, ibm, maxtor)
realised they could gain just a small increase in market share by being a bit more
linux friendly with disk geometry - they would be banging on the doors (who's door
mind you is another matter)
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