Subject: Re: I/O priorities
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/20/2002 12:09:44
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

# Manuel Bouyer a écrivé:
#
# > > others can have 10 partitions, one can mostly do I/O on one partition,
# > > another spread it evenly. what i don't understand?
# >
# > Because you may want to say, e.g. that the swap, / and /usr partition are
# > highter priorities.
# > The usual way to solve this is to add more disks, but it's not always possible.
#
#
# sounds different as an option. thanks for explanation

Why not prioritise by type of partition rather than by partition proper
(i.e. say swap gets slightly lower priority than ffs)?  Is there need to
prioritise by physical partition?

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