On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Antonio Perez [off-list ref] wrote:

Majed B. wrote:

quoted

I see.

Well, whether MD is smart enough to rearrange a queue when the arrays
are sharing disks or not, it still means that you can't run your
processes in parallel.

Does that means that different processes (treads) can't request reads on
different places on the disk concurrently?

I am sorry, but it seems that we are speaking different languages.

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Antonio Perez

Your applications can request as much files as they want regardless of
their location, but the mechanical heads move together, so they can be
at a single location at a point of time reading a single stream of a
file (or multiple files if they were next to each other on the
physical platter).

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      Majed B.
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