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From: Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:18:16 +0000
Subject: Re: [BTT PATCH] Add in option to change seek distance calculations
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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:05 -0400, Alan D. Brunelle wrote:
> +
> +  \begin{description}
> +    \item[default] By default, the seek distance is calculated as the
> +    \emph{closest} distance between the previous IO and this IO. The
> +    concept of \emph{closeness} means that it could either be the
> +    \emph{end} of the previous IO and the beginning of the next, or
> the
> +    end of this IO and the start of the next.
> +
> +    \item[\texttt{-a}] If the \texttt{-a} or \texttt{seek-absolute}
> +    option is specified, then the seek distance is simply the
> difference
> +    between the start of the previous IO and the start of this IO.
> +  \end{description}
>   

a typo? the distance between 2 start? or end of previous IO and start of
this IO?

Ming