Alan Cox wrote:
Disks are very very seek constrained. You get wonderful performance
reading
linear data. The moment you read a lot of scattered files or a file with a
lot of segments you will get low performance - even more so on laptops than
desktops
How much of a factor is rotational latency? Or does sucking entire track
into buffer
make rotational latency a non-factor these days?
73 de Jeff