On Wed, Oct 05 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 October 2005 16:58, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > There are still unknowns, the HD still being the biggest one of course.
> > The problem is that you don't know the worst case HD performance, it
> > might be doing all sorts of rewriting, calibration, error correct etc
> > that can still screw you. So I think without definitely knowledge of
> > what the HD will do in case of errors (or a way to control that which
> > you definitely can on some drives), it's still pretty hazy. It gets
> > better, but if you are looking for complete guarantees I don't think
> > it's good enough.
>
> Yes, but GRIO has exactly the same problem. I assume they need custom
> calibration for each IO subsystem.
Indeed it does, and yes if they really want to provide the type of
guarantees that Steve listed, then that needs a custom box with either
custom or known disk firmware options. If not you cannot give absolute
guarantees and expect to always honor them. That's in addition to
anything you may need to change in software, if using Linux you would
need to audit/fix lots of things in the io path.
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Jens Axboe
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