From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: disk block interleave methods - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ima.285
Posted: Mon Feb  7 03:23:50 1983
Received: Tue Feb  8 03:10:56 1983

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ima!johnl    Feb  6 17:15:00 1983

I expect that disk interleave is not done in the device driver so that
multi-block transfers, such as occur in swapping or raw disk I/O, can be
done in a single disk operation.  Some small Unix systems such as Onyxes
interleave at a very low level and swapping is pretty slow.

John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl