[plug] Partitioning Hard Disk

[Craig Ringer]

> The idea is that you should spend as little time moving the heads from
> data to swap to programs and so on...

I thought most modern (ATA-1 and above, basically) disks had very little 
correspondance between the logical (linux or BIOS-visible) and physical 
disk layouts, making this sort of thing pointless?

I seem to remember hearing somebody bitching about how ATA didn't allow 
easy discovery of physical disk layout and geometry for exactly this 
kind of performance tweak. Hmm... think they were a database type, actually.

SCSI isn't much better, from memory.

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