Alan Cox, on 10/31/2012 05:54 AM wrote:
I don't want to flame on this topic, but you are not right here. As far as I can
see, a big chunk of Linux storage and file system developers are/were employed
by
the "gold-plated storage" manufacturers, starting from FusionIO, SGI and Oracle.
You know, RedHat from recent times also stepped to this market, at least I saw
their advertisement on SDC 2012. So, you can add here all RedHat employees.
Booleans generally should be reserved for logic operators. Most of the
Linux companies work on both low and high end storage. The two are not
mutually exclusive nor do they divide neatly by market. Many big clouds
use cheap low end drives by the crate, some high end desktops are using
SAS although given you can get six 2.5" hotplug drives in a 5.25" bay I'm
not sure personally there is much point
Those doesn't contradict the point that high performance storage vendors are also
funding Linux kernel storage development.
Send patches with benchmarks demonstrating it is useful. It's really
quite simple. Code talks.
How about that recently preliminary infrastructure to send ORDERED commands
instead of queue draining was deleted from the kernel, because "there's no
difference where to drain the queue, on the kernel or the storage side"?
Vlad
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