> In theory, if the elevator was smart enough, it could actually help > read seekiness; there are two copies of the metadata, and it shouldn't That assumes the elevator actually knows what is nearby? I thought that wasn't that easy with modern disks with multiple spindles and invisible remapping, not even talking about RAID arrays looking like disks. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html