> In theory, if the elevator was smart enough, it could actually help
quoted text
> read seekiness; there are two copies of the metadata, and it shouldn't

That assumes the elevator actually knows what is nearby? I thought
that wasn't that easy with modern disks with multiple spindles
and invisible remapping, not even talking about RAID
arrays looking like disks.

-Andi
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