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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)."
  -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy            -- Louis Pasteur

  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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