On Dec 18, 2006, at 17:52, Richard Elling wrote:
In general, the closer to the user you can make policy decisions,
the better
decisions you can make. The fact that we've had 10 years of RAID
arrays
acting like dumb block devices doesn't mean that will continue for
the next
10 years :-) In the interim, we will see more and more
intelligence move
closer to the user.
I thought this is what the T10 OSD spec was set up to address. We've
already
got device manufacturers beginning to design and code to the spec.
---
.je
(ps .. actually it's closer to 20+ years of RAID and dumb block
devices ..)
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