On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Ian Collins wrote:
Nice sentiment, but not a lot of use if they want people to use the module! ZFS while definitely the result of "outside the box" thinking it can be used on all exiting hardware. How far would it have progressed if it had required specialised hardware?
It seems wrong to use a SCSI or SATA stack to access a hardware device like this. We could have used SCSI or SATA to access our video card, but we chose not to because there are more efficient models. Likewise a new type of "short stack" can be invented along with a new hardware interface which is otimum for accessing memory-based low-latency non-volatile devices. This "short stack" can fit under zfs like any other block-oriented storage device.
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