Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15T01:12:25Z

> If RAID1 can use the generic elevator then it should. I
> guess it can't though.

No, but it is feeding IO requests into the elevators of the
block devices below it. For a given read, all it wants to do
is pick one device to handle the work. If it could look into
the queues maybe it could make better decisions.

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Chuck