From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:20:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107042045.GA10045@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17360000.1041899978@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:39:38PM +1300, Andrew McGregor wrote:
> Hmm. The problem here is that there is a nontrivial probability that a
> packet can pass both ethernet and TCP checksums and still not be right,
> given the gigantic volumes of data that iSCSI is intended to be used with.
> Back up a 100 terabyte array and it's more than 1%, back of the envelope.
What was the underlying error rate and distribution you assumed? I
figure if it were high enough to get to your 1%, you'd have such high
retry rates (and resulting throughput loss) that the operator would
notice his LAN was broken weeks before said transfer completed.
--
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-05 1:54 Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!) Andre Hedrick
2003-01-05 2:47 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-05 3:26 ` NEURONET
2003-01-05 4:11 ` NEURONET
2003-01-05 4:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-05 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-06 3:06 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-01-06 3:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-06 5:24 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-01-06 10:24 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-06 16:51 ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-07 0:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-07 20:36 ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-07 22:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-08 0:04 ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-08 1:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-08 1:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-08 16:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-08 19:37 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-07 0:39 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-07 4:20 ` Oliver Xymoron [this message]
2003-01-07 5:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-07 6:16 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-07 6:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-07 7:08 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-07 8:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-07 8:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-07 8:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-07 17:07 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-07 12:12 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-07 6:45 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-01-07 7:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-07 11:24 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-07 10:31 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-01-08 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-08 20:09 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-08 20:40 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-07 12:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-07 12:31 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-07 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-07 23:09 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-01-07 16:21 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-01-07 13:04 ` Lionel Bouton
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10301051924140.421-100000@master.linux-ide.o rg>
2003-01-06 7:14 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-01-06 7:53 ` Linux iSCSI Initiator Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10301052337150.421-100000@master.linux-ide.o rg>
2003-01-06 9:10 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-01-06 9:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-06 3:25 ` Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!) Richard Stallman
2003-01-06 4:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-06 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-05 22:51 Adam J. Richter
[not found] <fa.kccjmvv.13go3jp@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hjtum4v.fki8p1@ifi.uio.no>
2003-01-08 1:07 ` walt
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