Toby Thain wrote: > On 5-Oct-07, at 2:26 AM, Jonathan Loran wrote: > >> I've been thinking about this for awhile, but Anton's analysis >> makes me think about it even more: >> >> We all love ZFS, right. It's futuristic in a bold new way, which >> many virtues, I won't preach tot he choir. But to make it all >> glue together has some necessary CPU/Memory intensive operations >> around checksum generation/validation, compression, encryption, >> data placement/component load balancing, etc. Processors have >> gotten really powerful, much more so than the relative disk I/O >> gains, which in all honesty make ZFS possible. My question: Is >> anyone working on an offload engine for ZFS? > > How far would that compromise ZFS' #1 virtue (IMHO), end to end > integrity?
It need not, in fact with ZFS Crypto you will already get the encryption and checksum offloaded if you have suitable hardware (eg a SCA-6000 card or a Niagara 2 processor). -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
