Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261851AbUDXCZF (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:25:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261857AbUDXCZF (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:25:05 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:2491 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261851AbUDXCZD (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:25:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:24:58 -0400 From: Tom Vier To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File system compression, not at the block layer Message-ID: <20040424022458.GA16166@zero> Reply-To: Tom Vier References: <40898834.7040803@techsource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40898834.7040803@techsource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 16 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. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/