From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>,
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:32:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030413183222.GA1318@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030413182405.GG676@gallifrey>
On 2003-04-13T19:24:05,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org> said:
> Now given these discs have processors on board isn't it about time
> someone improved the disc interface standards to push some of the
> intelligence drivewards? I guess with enough intelligence the drive
> could do free block allocation and could do things like copying blocks
> around for you.
Ah, you have reinvented SCSI (which can copy without involving the host...),
or reinvented the Object Based Storage (see Lustre).
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
"If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-13 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-13 18:03 Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 18:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 18:32 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-04-13 18:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-13 22:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 0:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-13 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 3:58 ` Nick Piggin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-16 13:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 23:06 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 1:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-16 1:59 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 1:19 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 21:27 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-15 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 3:44 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14 2:29 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 22:13 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-13 23:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-12 22:46 Timothy Miller
2003-04-13 9:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-13 11:50 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 15:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-14 3:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-14 6:44 ` Mark Hahn
2003-04-14 13:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-13 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-13 16:15 ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 13:01 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-18 13:25 ` John Bradford
2003-04-14 18:27 ` Wes Felter
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