Boot poster challenge
Jeff Johnson
n3npq at nc.rr.com
Sun Nov 21 17:11:56 UTC 2004
Alan Cox wrote:
>Disks are very very seek constrained. You get wonderful performance reading
>linear data. The moment you read a lot of scattered files or a file with a
>lot of segments you will get low performance - even more so on laptops than
>desktops
>
>
How much of a factor is rotational latency? Or does sucking entire track
into buffer
make rotational latency a non-factor these days?
73 de Jeff
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