From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 13:02:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19884 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19861; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:02:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25267; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:01:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd025133; Tue Sep 15 13:01:43 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22432; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:01:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809152001.NAA22432@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:01:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, joelh@gnu.org, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809150222.TAA23732@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Sep 14, 98 07:22:52 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 > Uh, I think it is reasonable to assume that disk drives have contiguous > block numbers (except for replacement blocks of course). Sorting by block > number is the most optimal way of sorting that we can do in FreeBSD. If you knew physical cylinder boundries, you could do gathering, as well. In SCSI II, it's possible to know this. It's also possible on all ST506 and ESDI hardware, and, I think, on EIDE. I'm sure that, now we've brought it up, it will be implemented in Linux next week... 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