Re: Patititioning hard drive

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system
like Linux?  It aint DOS.  Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of
memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement.

I wonder ... :-)

Single drive is worse than multi drive, I agree.

Cheers 

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:54:20AM +0200, dgabi wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:14:32 -0600
> Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > When your system switches from reading in a binary from /bin to
> > writing a pid file in /var, obviously, there'll be head movement.
> > If /bin sits on one end of the disk, and /var on another, there'll
> > be more head movement; if the binary and pid file in question live
> > right next to each other there'll be less head movement. I don't
> > see anything specific to linux kernel in that.
> 
> and what if all your /var files are all over yaur big / 
> partition ( if / is not splited in pieces )  ?
> will be a lot of head movement.
> you cannot know that all your /var files  will be nearby /bin or
> /$whatever files . 
> anyway i agree that a single drive is a bit of  performance loss.
> the major hack that can be done is to put swap partiton at the begining 
> of drive  (first partiton). The head reads faster from  inner edge. 
> i am an adept of spliting drive in patitions depending of sistem's job.
> this ca save you from a lot of trouble.
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