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SubjectRe: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
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On Sul, 2003-04-13 at 19:24, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Now given these discs have processors on board isn't it about time
> someone improved the disc interface standards to push some of the
> intelligence drivewards? I guess with enough intelligence the drive
> could do free block allocation and could do things like copying blocks
> around for you.

I wish it would. Most of the research and stuff so far has either put
the file system into the disk firmware (upgrade hell). Having a disk
which talked entirely about

read(handle,offset, length)
write(handle, offset, length)
alloc(handle, near_handle, length, otherhints...)

might well work out rather better. It also allows the disk to do fairly
major relayout of data as it learns usage.

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