Wouldn't it be possible to do it once at disk _installation_ time?
That is:
1) buy the disk,
2) put it into the box,
3) run the detection program (which may run several hours...). For
more precision, run the detection program out of a small Linux system
booted from a _different_ disk, or from floppy.
4) when done, the detection program dumps its findings to a file.
5) later on, the disk driver just reads the data stored in that file
at boot, without having to run the optimization program again.
And for those who don't want to spend several hours running that disk
optimization utilitiy, they could always go to a website where we
would centralize that kind of info (assuming same disk type = same
characteristics).
> And it may still fail due to caching and buffering
>in the disk itself.
>The task isn't easier for swap partitions, although a simple
>optimization can be done by preferring to use the fastest side
>of the partition first. This can be determined by a simple program.
>
>Helge Hafting
>
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