Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you sure about that? That would probably be the normal case, but are > you promised that the hardware will write all of the sectors of a block > in order?
I don't think you can possibly assume that. If the block crosses a cylinder boundary then it's certainly an unsafe assumption, and even within a cylinder (no seek required) I'm pretty sure that disk drives have understood "write the next sector that passes under the heads" for decades. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster