On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:01:15PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > seconds for dd if=/dev/zero to flush all of its buffers.
> >
> > An I/O scheduler does probably make sense. Other mechanism can help too.
> > First we probably need a per-partition I/O queue, instead of per device.
> 
> i don't think partitions have anything with that. doing that will make
> linux-like case (at least linux 2.2. kernels) where lots of partitions
> means even slower work and lots of disk seeks as it sorts request per
> partition not real device

I was thinking a mix of the two.

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