[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Apr 24 22:45:19 CDT 2008


On Apr 20, 2008, at 00:42 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Following your logic, in order to sell a controller as "hardware  
> RAID" you'd have to fully implement RAID functionality in hard-wired  
> gates, with no "soft logic" inside? That threshold is a bit high - I  
> think it would be fair to set the bar at "RAID implemented to not  
> rely on host RAM and/or CPU"...

Following my logic would have led you to a joke.

Hardware RAID is a coprocessor.  Same basic definition applies.  The  
work is not being done by the host.

Otherwise, how many sub-atomic state changes are involved in  
incrementing a register?

	:-)



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