From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:46:29 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] /dev/drum
In-Reply-To: <9a5e49bb-f235-4b87-445b-1532d8facd2f@update.uu.se> (Johnny
 Billquist's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:44:06 +0200")
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Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Which is also why the file system for RSX (ODS-1) placed the index
> file (equivalent of the inode table) at the middle of the disk by
> default.  Not sure if Unix did that optimization, but I would hope so.

I know of an operating system predating Unix which has that
optimization.