[zfs-discuss] Need explanations on some terms/phrases

2007-04-12 Thread Annie Li
Hi experts, Could anyone please help explain these? 1. However, we do use a slightly modified set of warnings to get the clean build we have today. Q: Is it a build that doesn't have any warning or error? 2. Removing a data disk from a system running on SPARC processors and attaching it to a

[zfs-discuss] query on ZFS

2007-04-11 Thread Annie Li
Can anyone help explain what does "out-of-order issue" mean in the following segment? ZFS has a pipelined I/O engine, similar in concept to CPU pipelines. The pipeline operates on I/O dependency graphs and provides scoreboarding, priority, deadline scheduling, out-of-order issue and I/O aggregatio