Re: Boot poster challenge

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> How much of a factor is rotational latency? Or does sucking entire track 
> into buffer
> make rotational latency a non-factor these days?

It still seems to matter from timing. I would assume the drives are smart
enough to hand back sectors as they read them even if they are caching
ahead and doing other clever stuff.