Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:23:21 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness |
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Hi,
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:18:13 -0800 (PST), Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> said:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> Frankly, Unix has really never supported disk IO stream bandwidth >> reservation.
> IRIX does.
Only on certain volumes, only if you use a specific, non-Unix API, and only if you allocate the file in advance with the requested bandwidth. The standard Unix API does _not_ make any bandwidth guarantees.
--Stephen
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