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>> Hale asked:
Quiz: In a typical multitasking OS with ten applications running each SEQUENTIALLY reading or writing files on the same disk drive - what is the data access pattern actually seen by the drive?
Jens Axboe wrote: > This message is from the T13 list server.
There's no answer to that,
And you are absolutely CORRECT. That was the entire point of the question.
as the question doesn't make any sense - what is a 'typical multitasking OS'?
For most T13 discussions this is some version of Windows.
What access pattern you will see depends on how clever the io scheduler is.
Absolutely true (note that he said "I/O SCHEDULER"). Hale -- ++ Hale Landis ++ www.ata-atapi.com ++
