Points well taken!
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> "SCHOENWETTER,SEBASTIAN (HP-Belgium,ex1)" <sebastian_schoenwetter@xxxxxx>
> >> writes:
>
> > But is that due to a good CPU which is able to handle all those
> > tasks, good scsi setup, ... ?
>
> That's likely. Guaranteed rate I/O (GRIO) works only with XFS
> filesystems (this is true on IRIX) and not on Linux.
>
> Just to clarify: Someone asked why the XFS patch is so large. I just
> said the XFS patch also includes some GRIO stuff. I didn't mean to say
> that the feature is implemented on Linux (in fact, it's not, if you use
> the corresponding ioctl it will return ENOSYS). Remember that XFS is
> not Linux specific, and it'd be a nightmare to maintain two completely
> different source trees, one for Linux and one for IRIX.
>
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