Re: elevator algorithm bug in ll_rw_blk.c

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:15:18 -0500

According to Martin Mares:
> Chip:
> > But that's a *one-way* elevator. Ideal elevators are two-way, aren't they?
>
> Using two-way elevators for disk block sorting is probably highly
> suboptimal since most disks are painfully slow when reading blocks
> backwards.

I get the joke, but I've got to think that there's nothing
particularly directional about track-to-track seek speed.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg        - a.k.a. -        <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "There -- we made them swerve slightly!"   //MST3K


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