From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:43:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408E7FBE.7010700@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040424022458.GA16166@zero>
Tom Vier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:18:44PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>>In a drive with multiple platters and therefore multiple heads, you
>>could read/write from all heads simultaneously. Or is that how they
>>already do it?
>
>
> fwih, there was once a drive that did this. the problem is track alignment.
> these days, you'd need seperate motors for each head.
>
Oh, yeah. Forget the separate motors. Would definately need that to
move heads independently.
The problem is track alignment. Don't drives dedicate one track on one
platter as an alignment track?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 17:26 File system compression, not at the block layer Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 17:30 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-04-23 17:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-04-23 17:57 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-23 18:14 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 18:34 ` Paul Jackson
2004-04-23 20:14 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-23 20:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-23 20:44 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-23 20:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-23 21:14 ` Ben Greear
2004-04-23 21:25 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-24 4:58 ` Ben Greear
2004-04-27 15:45 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 21:18 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-24 1:28 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-24 2:24 ` Tom Vier
2004-04-24 7:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-24 16:02 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-25 3:05 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-25 7:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-25 19:50 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-27 15:43 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-04-28 0:29 ` Tom Vier
2004-04-23 21:31 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-23 22:20 ` Ian Stirling
2004-04-23 23:34 ` Paul Jackson
2004-04-27 15:42 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-27 16:02 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-24 1:18 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-26 10:22 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-23 21:15 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-23 21:36 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-04-27 20:34 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-28 22:57 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-29 9:46 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-29 9:52 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-29 10:09 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-29 10:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-29 17:17 ` Tim Connors
2004-04-28 1:00 ` David Lang
2004-04-28 10:09 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-28 10:21 ` Nikita Danilov
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