Subject: Re: UVM/other problems for desktop users in current?
To: Jukka Marin , Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 12/18/2002 18:54:00
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:50:13AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Does NetBSD order the requests based on the disk geometry reported in
> disklabel

Yes, assuming the drive internals match this at all.  I think at
least the "ordered linear sequence of blocks" assumption has to be
reasonably close, even if the heads/cylinders/rotation stuff is
totally off.

> or has this code been removed (or did it ever exist in NetBSD)?

I think some of it could probably be removed, but its still there.

--
Dan.