The disk read/write reordering optimization only works if the 
database file is contiguous on the disk and not fragmented. 

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Basically, the db file is accessed with seek + read/write operations.
> Given a set of such operations, it can be very beneficial to reorder those 
> operations so that
> the file is accessed going from the begining to the end of the file (and not 
> pure random).
> This is a problem mostly for reads (writes are reordered when doing a 
> combination of async
> writes + flush at the end).

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