From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
Date: 13 Apr 2003 23:14:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050272088.24564.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030413182405.GG676@gallifrey>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-13 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-13 18:03 Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 18:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 18:32 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-13 18:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 22:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-14 0:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-13 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 3:58 ` Nick Piggin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-16 13:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 23:06 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 1:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-16 1:59 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 1:19 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 21:27 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 3:44 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14 2:29 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 22:13 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 23:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-12 22:46 Timothy Miller
2003-04-13 9:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-13 11:50 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 15:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-14 3:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 6:44 ` Mark Hahn
2003-04-14 13:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-13 16:15 ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 13:01 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-18 13:25 ` John Bradford
2003-04-14 18:27 ` Wes Felter
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1050272088.24564.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=76306.1226@compuserve.com \
--cc=gilbertd@treblig.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).