On Dec 16, 2007 3:18 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Bob La Quey wrote: > > > >> Because ZFS runs on the "main" processor not some peripheral > >> processor on a disk controller it will cause a hit on > >> the "main" processor ... but the advantage of that is the "main" > >> processor is far more likely, because of economies of scale > >> and competition, to be far faster than the cpus used in the > >> disk controller. Disk controllers are less likely than > >> motherboards to contain the latest technology. > > > > Um, and there is no reason why you can't just create a cabinet in which > > the "main" processor *is* the "disk" processor. > > That sounds like what Tracy is doing.. :-) > > >.. > > Regards, > ..jim
Yeh, but Tracy is doing it at a much lower level than the file system. He is doing it at the ATA level, which is sector/block provision of data. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
