Boot poster challenge

[Jeff Johnson]

Alan Cox wrote:

>Disks are very very seek constrained. You get wonderful performance reading
>linear data. The moment you read a lot of scattered files or a file with a
>lot of segments you will get low performance - even more so on laptops than
>desktops
>  
>

How much of a factor is rotational latency? Or does sucking entire track 
into buffer
make rotational latency a non-factor these days?

73 de Jeff