From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 14 11:09:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15432 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15245; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:08:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21421; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:07:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd021374; Mon Sep 14 11:07:46 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18273; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:07:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809141807.LAA18273@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:07:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809140412.VAA00438@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Sep 13, 98 09:12:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >FreeBSD no longer does elevator sorts on data pending output, > >relying instead on the disk hardware to be smarter about this, > >especially given the likelihood that the drive is lying about > >its pysical geometry, making it unlikely that any sort you > >could do would result in an optimization. > > Not true. All of the "dumb" drivers (wd, fd, etc) call a generic disk block > elevator sorting function. (!) I didn't see this... time to reread the damn code before I post another answer in this area... 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message