[comp.arch] I/O and disks

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.
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