Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:18:44 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Actually not. You need a FIFO to cache your bits into buffers of bytes > anyway. Depending upon the length of the FIFO, you can "rubber-band" a > lot of rotational latency. When you are dealing with a lot of drives, > you are never going to have all the write currents turn on at the same > time anyway because they are (very) soft-sectored, i.e., block > replacement, etc. > > Your argument was used to shout down the idea. Actually, I think > it was lost in the NIH syndrome anyway. >
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?
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