On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:39:13 -0600, "Michael Halcrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Slide 19 is just ridiculous. They totally misapplied Moore's Law to > justify their 128-bit address space design decision; those who > actually read Moore's paper would know that Moore's Law actually > refers to the density of functional components on silicon devices, not > the density of magnetic domains on hard disk platters. They are > entirely different technologies with entirely different trends.
You're right -- but hard disk capacity is increasing _faster_ than transistor density. > I agree that we could do better, and ZFS looks like a step in the > right direction, but I would be skeptical of any suggestion that it is > the best alternative we have at the moment. True, but I would be even more skeptical that <competing IBM technology> is "the best." -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
