> You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real
> block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.
Found this by accident while skimming a new book; haven't visited yet
but it may be of interest:
A technical report describing Skippy and two other disk drive
microbenchmarks (run in seconds or minutes rather than hours or days)
is at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-99-1063
(Hennessey & Patterson 3rd ed., Ch.7, exercise 5.)
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