> 
> The course emphasized extensively on the placement of
> each logical 
> volume's PP i.e. the above physical partitioning
> (1016) layout...either 
> on the outer edge, middle or inner edge of the
> cylinderical disk.

They allow you to specify where to place the PP, this is because accessing to 
different location on the disk plate give you different speed. I think 
accessing the outer edgeis the fastest, I can't remember exactly. It allow you 
to place your most frequent access data on the fast location. But this may not 
be applicable any more because the disk technology had improved over the years. 
In older day, it make sence because you don't have many disks in a system, 
typically people buy one big disk can cut it out for different usages. Nowaday, 
people prefer many smaller disks to make up a pool, especially for database 
access. 

Regards
Nathan Phan
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