On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Antonio Perez <ap23563m@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Majed B. wrote: > > > I see. > > > > Well, whether MD is smart enough to rearrange a queue when the arrays > > are sharing disks or not, it still means that you can't run your > > processes in parallel. > > Does that means that different processes (treads) can't request reads on > different places on the disk concurrently? > > I am sorry, but it seems that we are speaking different languages. > > -- > Antonio Perez Your applications can request as much files as they want regardless of their location, but the mechanical heads move together, so they can be at a single location at a point of time reading a single stream of a file (or multiple files if they were next to each other on the physical platter). -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
