Re: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > the disk spins at the same rotational rpm ... its the "same" speed But when converted to linear speed, the outside is moving faster than the inside. This is why most bicycles you see have w

RE: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a > moot point > > as such a high percentage of hits come from cache. > > remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives > are 8MB cache > > > - the 2MB disk cache will be flooded and not used at all... > > T

Re: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Jeff
Alvin Oga, 2003-Mar-31 17:03 -0800: > > hi ya Greetings > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeff wrote: > > > I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on > > the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD. I've been trying to > > get a definitive answer on this and it's still n

RE: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as > such a high percentage of hits come from cache. remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives are 8MB cache drives spin at say 7200rpm ie .138ms per revolu

Re: Partitioning for Speed - heads

2003-03-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya oki On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Oki DZ wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - less moving of the heads is generally faster as it takes too long > > to move the head relative to just reading data > > How long is exactly to move the head from outside to the ce

RE: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Joyce, Matthew
of the HDD, leaving /home and /usr/local for the rest of the > drive. Does this make sense? [That's how I like to partition, > those four mount points.] > > My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning > for speed in general. My purpose is general us

Re: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > - less moving of the heads is generally faster as it takes too long > to move the head relative to just reading data How long is exactly to move the head from outside to the center? Long ago, I tinkered with moving the swap partitio

Re: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Oki DZ
by default at the beginning, or on the inside, of the HDD? It should be at the beginning. > My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning for > speed in general. My purpose is general usage, nothing specific. I believe that partitioning for speed is a bit unusable; the

Re: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Alvin Oga
swap and / partitions in the fastest part > of the HDD, leaving /home and /usr/local for the rest of the > drive. Does this make sense? [That's how I like to partition, > those four mount points.] > > My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning for

Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Jeff
to partition, those four mount points.] My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning for speed in general. My purpose is general usage, nothing specific. thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email