On 22 December, 2010 - Jerry Kemp sent me these 1,0K bytes: > I have a coworker, who's primary expertise is in another flavor of Unix. > > This coworker lists floating point operations as one of ZFS detriments. > > I's not really sure what he means specifically, or where he got this > reference from.
Then maybe ask him first? Guilty until proven innocent isn't the regular path... > In an effort to refute what I believe is an error or misunderstanding on > his part, I have spent time on Yahoo, Google, the ZFS section of > OpenSolaris.org, etc. I really haven't turned up much of anything that > would prove or disprove his comments. The one thing I haven't done is > to go through the ZFS source code, but its been years since I have done > any serious programming. > > If someone from Oracle, or anyone on this mailing list could point me > towards any documentation, or give me a definitive word, I would sure > appreciate it. If there were floating point operations going on within > ZFS, at this point I am uncertain as to what they would be. > > TIA for any comments, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
