On Sunday 19 October 2003 09:00, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:42, Spider wrote:
> > begin quote
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Meph Istopheles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm installing tomorrow & havn't seen it in either the install
> > > docs or on any Web page, but is gentoo optimised with /swap in a
> > > particular position? RH wants it at the end of a disk, I
> > > remember mdk wants it as the second partition, etc. I'll
> > > probably do /boot, then /, then /swap on the drive I'm installing
> > > on...unless someone tells me otherwise.
> >
> > Its basically personal preference. I like to have it as second partition
> > (Beginning of drive) but thats just me.. Theres no perfect recepie for
> > it that I know of (since I don't know how to align it on platters to
> > make it "optimized)
>
> From what I've heard, beginning of drive is best since a drive can cover
> more area on the outside of the disc in the same amount of time rotating
> at the same speed.
I thought sector 0 was at the inside of the disk like it is on a CDROM or a
floppy disk!? I'm not certain either, however.
As to whether the middle of the disk (to reduce seek times) or the outside of
the disk (to maximize bandwidth) is best, it would depend on how the kernel
pages memory. If it does it in 64kb blocks or such then the middle is
probably best as the page ins/outs would be interleaved with regular i/o. On
the otherhand, if it pages is mbs then the outside would be best. Anybody
know the size of a page?
Regards,
Jason
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