Re: TOE brain dump

Alan Cox
2003-08-03T20:55:32Z

On Sad, 2003-08-02 at 23:14, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> That's taking this idea to an extreme, yes. I'd think of
> using something as big as an amd64 for this as "too
> expensive", but perhaps it's cheap enough in the long run,
> compared to some "optimized" design.

Volume makes cheap. If you look at software v hardware raid controllers
the hardware people are permanently being killed by the low volume of
cards.