chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/16/89)
In article <19595@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote: >(See the papers by Carson and Vongsathorn on adaptive disk rearrangement >and other disk performance studies for some of the reasons for this.) You can get both as TRs from UMCP, but only one is out in a journal, as yet: a theoretical result on cylinder rearrangement. It is in Information Processing Letters, May 1989. A paper with a study of actual disk access patterns is `forthcoming' in Software P&E. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris