From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Graeme Sheppard <nodes@rillion.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:20:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18048.30679.872740.744997@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Graeme Sheppard on Tuesday June 26
On Tuesday June 26, nodes@rillion.net wrote:
> Posting it here seems the best thing to do.
>
> To the inventor goes naming privilege and I'm calling this one softer raid.
> It is a form of storage raid implemented in software, as contrasted to
> software and hardware raid which are dependent on using required hardware.
>
> To create a loop filesystem is straight forward. The commands are dd,
> mkfs.*, mount -o loop. Basically what I propose is that the image file is
> copied to another harddisk (in the case of ide not on the same cable) and
> it too is mounted in conjunction of the original with cooperation. When a
> read request for a block of say 100k is made, the kernel pulls 50k from
> each disk - maybe a simple doubling of throughput.
Sounds a lot like "RAIF" - ask google for details.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 21:45 Patent or not patent a new idea Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-25 22:04 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:26 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-25 22:33 ` alan
2007-06-25 22:34 ` Attila Kinali
2007-06-25 22:37 ` manningc2
2007-06-26 0:11 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 1:32 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 2:20 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-06-26 3:20 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 3:38 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 4:22 ` Graeme Sheppard
2007-06-26 4:33 ` Neil Brown
2007-06-26 16:53 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-26 17:38 ` Andreas Dilger
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