> > you do 2 cache_dirs per drive????
>
> Yes.
> The idea is to exploit (if possible) elevator optimization in moving
> the drive heads, which requires having multiple outstanding
> requests on the same drive. Diskd only has one active disk operation
> at any given moment AFAIK.
> Probably mostly irrelevant under normal conditions, but it can help
> decrease consistency checks and crash recovering.
are there on the same partition?
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