Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Bernd Eckenfels
2007-04-16T19:21:41Z

In article <4623BE2E.2020800@s5r6.in-berlin.de> you wrote:
> I meant that the central requirement on the design and implementation of
> audio subsystems is an (ideally guaranteed) bounded maximum of
> latencies; and that's exactly the major point where I heard that there
> are problems with ALSA driver components in userspace. You were talking
> about throughput of storage systems, for which latencies of the software
> part of the stack do not play such a central role. Therefore your
> comparison appeared off the mark to me.

Unfortunatelle Latency is critical for a number of critical applications
like databases or file based transaction systems (mail, news) - mainly the
users of fsync().

Gruss
Bernd