[OFF-TOPIC] Re: Sharing SCSI disks

Mr Paul Tethys (tethys@lonnds.ml.com)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:41:01 +0000

>I brought up this with Linus once, the conversation was in reference
>to how we thought we could do on database benchmarks etc. which is
>essentially all over raw block devices these days. (which we both
>agreed was entirely stupid, the kernel should be doing buffer caching,
>not some silly Oracle disk I/O layer) In any event, it is just
>essentially page flipping every request to dma out to the disk. The
>cpu never touches any of this stuff (in the kernel that is).

As an aside, apparently Oracle have been asking some of their resellers
about customer demand for a native Linux version. We can but hope...

Tet

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