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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: a question about the mapsearch() in ufs
Date: 24 Aug 1993 20:27:01 +0930
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References: <251h48$1cn@acsc.com> <1993Aug20.200750.21613@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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In article <1993Aug20.200750.21613@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>The other classical workaround is to say
>the drive has exactly one big, long cylinder so that it never believes
>seeks occur at all; if you do this, it will check toward the end of the
>disk before checking toward the front, and you should watch your disk
>fragmentation.
<smiles>
You'd better not try to partition the disk, either, because paritions are
supposed to start on cylinder boundries :-)
- mark
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