Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thursday 19 October 2006 02:46 am, Darren J Moffat wrote:
ZFS only does byte swapping for ZFS metadata not application data. You
really don't want the filesystem doing application data byte swapping on
the fly - since you don't know which apps are written for a given
endianness and which are byte swap aware.
So, why would you use hardware instructions opposed to the network functions
to convert application data other than speed? Wouldn't the network functions
be preferred for applications?
Why would you use functions from a networking library if you are only
writing to disk ?
The hardware instructions maybe because of speed but could also be an
atomicity requirement - without knowing the reason the question was
asked it is hard to say.
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Darren J Moffat
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