Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:58:05 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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Timothy Miller wrote:
>> Wouldn't this pretty much guarantee worst-case latency scenario for >> reading, since >> on average at least one of your 32 disks is going to require a full >> rotation >> (and probably a seek) to find it's bit? > > > > Only for the first bit of a block. For large streams of reads, the > fifos will keep things going, except for occasionally as drives drift in > their relative rotation positions which can cause some delays.
So how is that better than using a striping raid that stripes at the block level or multi-block level?
Ben
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