Majed B. wrote: > 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). Yes that's completely correct, and it's the job of the "elevator" (*) on the "md" code to decide which sector, and in what order, such sectors will be serviced. If the "elevator" is aware of the underlying hardware, it will do the right thing if there are several md or just one. *(I am not an expert on this, is just what I got from Robin) -- Antonio Perez -- 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
