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 #R:tekmdp:-175400:ima:20400003:000:355 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