From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4EFE2F9F.9080405@0x6a.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:39:43 -0600 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <322fa0e8c0ed03f250cdcecaeec7040b@ladd.quanstro.net> <79ebf95bd05ebf52fc95480beb655e42@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <79ebf95bd05ebf52fc95480beb655e42@ladd.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 52ab3bfa-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/30/2011 3:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use >> fs(3) or another software solution? > > if a coraid appliance were pcie-attached rather than ethernet attached, > would you still ask this question? do you think the block diagram of coraid > hardware looks fundamentally different than the block diagram of a raid > card? > > - erik > I think he is trying to get you to divulge details on the software running on the coraid appliance itself. We all know it is plan 9 based (right?), so it would be interesting to know how this extra functionality of raid was added. I know these are trade secrets though so I've never asked. I would still ask that question if it were pcie attached. Curiosity will be my undoing though. -Jack