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[Ignacio Solis]

* cerise at armory.com (cerise at armory.com) said:
> Either way, the frequency of use would be interesting, but you wouldn't
> want to put all those files together.  You'd try to spread those out over the
> platter so that at any one time, you're near a hot file.

That doesn't make sense. If you want fast access (seek time) you want all the
files close to you (the head), hence you move them close together.  You'll
achieve nothing if you spread them out... other than increasing the seek time
from one file to another.

Nacho

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