From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261374AbTDMSdg (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:33:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261387AbTDMSdg (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:33:36 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:7063 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261374AbTDMSdf (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:33:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:32:23 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? Message-ID: <20030413183222.GA1318@marowsky-bree.de> References: <200304131407_MC3-1-3441-57C7@compuserve.com> <20030413182405.GG676@gallifrey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030413182405.GG676@gallifrey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-04-13T19:24:05, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" 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 -- 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