> Actually, if you guys would design something a littler newer than circa
> 1973 for your buffer cache design, things would be easier. The buffer
> cache acts this way becuase it is based on a PRIMITIVE design that's not
> far off from the textbook description found in "UNIX: a practical
> implementation." Novell was doing mirroring and distributed mirroring
> since about 1984. We are just trying to get linux closer to the 1990's.
Thanks not to invalidate that the mirroring at the power of 3 is possible.
;-)
Given the smileys and other technologies involved, you should not have
missed that I was joking about the absurdity of brain-deaded complexities
and redundancies we have to deal nowadays in I.T. due to legacies.
By the way, it happens that I ask me questions about 1990's software
technology being actually superior to 1970's one or just increase of
complexity.
Gérard.
> Jeff
>
> Gerard Roudier wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Peter Tonoli wrote:
> >
> > > > > What is problem with the RAID drivers?
> > > >
> > > > Could I try a couple of guesses?
> > > [...]
> > > > Guess number 2:
> > > > ---------------
> > > > Someone just missed that Linux has support for mirroring. ;-)
> > >
> > > Or... RAID is incompatible with NWFS :)
> >
> > Was basically my guess number 1, but your comments let guess number 3
> > come to mind:
> >
> > Based on the description of the buffer changes for NWFS, it seems they can
> > be used both. That means that NWFS for linux will be usable with software
> > mirroring at the power of 2. People that uses recent I2O or later RAID
> > controllers will even be able to use NWFS with mirroring at the power of
> > 3. ;-)
> >
> > Gérard.
> >
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