From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263778AbTDYT1T (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263851AbTDYT1T (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:27:19 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:46852 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263778AbTDYT1Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:27:16 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for Date: 25 Apr 2003 12:38:57 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <200304251618.h3PGINWP001520@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <200304251748.h3PHmjQd012895@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200304251748.h3PHmjQd012895@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> By author: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Of bigger concern is that the inter-block gap is only 0.5 (or maybe 0.75 > inches, the memories are dim ;) - and you need to be able to stop and then get > back up to speed in that distance (or decelerate, rewind, and get a running > start). > No, you don't. You just need to make sure you don't have the head active while you overshoot. Performance will *definitely* suffer if you don't, though, since you'd have to rewind. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64