http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is mostly a note for myself. In 3.2.4, it is said that "for a special file, this i-node contains the major device number, and the minor device number". This is different from what we know for normal files, where the i-node contains file access time, etc. It is not effecient to ... http://dryice.name/blog/minix/different-i-node-for-different-file-type/ I was reading about disk IO this morning. In chapter 3.1.3, it is said that the disk need to be formatted with the number interlaving, so that we'll need less disk circlings to get the data we need. My question is, all these is based on one assumption: that the buffer ... http://dryice.name/blog/minix/disk-io-interleave/