> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:29:56AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > :>
> > :> I would think that track-caches and intelligent drives would gain
> > :> much if not more of what clustering was designed to do gain.
> > :
> > :Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger
> > :I/Os is preferable over lots of very small I/Os. Or have I missed the point?
>
> > As long as you do not blow away the drive's cache with your big I/O's,
> > and as long as you actually use all the returned data, it's definitely
> > more efficient to issue larger I/O's.
>
> Prefetching data that is never used is obviously a waste. 256K might be a
> bit big, I was thinking of something like 64-128Kb
>
> Drive caches tend to be 0.5-1Mbyte (on SCSI disks) for modern drives.
Your a bit behind the times with that set of numbers for modern SCSI
drives. It is now 1 to 16 Mbyte of cache, with 2 and 4Mbyte being the
most common.
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