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Re: TOE brain dump

To: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03 Aug 2003 21:52:13 +0100
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>, Werner Almesberger <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sul, 2003-08-03 at 05:01, Ben Greear wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network 
> > stuff is flashly but pointless.  If you want to serve up data from disk, 
> > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet 
> > connectors on them :)  Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host 
> 
> I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA..
> but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :)

There is a protocol floating around for ATA over ethernet, no TCP layer
or nasty latency eating complexities in the middle


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