From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: ZFS
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:52:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fda7e62d765aa094f04d15d544a1509@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f7562ec89169ece4254f4e77fc3aeca@collyer.net>
> adaptive endian-ness is pretty easy; I nearly put it into
> Ken's file server a few weeks ago
[...]
> When mounting the file
> system, if that long looks like 0x04030201 instead, you push
> the existing "x" byte-swapping pseudo file-system that knows the format
> of all meta-data and byte-swaps blocks as they are read and written.
i'm not sure that this is the kind of thing that sun is doing. in
that press release they insist that "neither architecture pays a
byte-swapping tax" (which is what you're paying by using an extra
level of indirection).
ahh, i suppose they probably mean "neither architecture pays a
byte-swapping tax *on a filesystem created by that architecture*", in
which case you're doing something equivalent.
could they really patent such a trivial thing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-17 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 16:39 Sam
2004-09-15 18:37 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-15 19:05 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-15 19:12 ` Tim Newsham
2004-09-17 7:09 ` geoff
2004-09-17 8:04 ` Lucio De Re
2004-09-17 8:52 ` rog [this message]
2004-09-17 9:27 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-09-17 13:38 ` Nigel Roles
2004-09-17 20:54 ` Tim Newsham
2004-09-17 15:21 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-09-17 14:37 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-09-16 0:08 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-09-16 0:10 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-16 2:14 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-16 0:21 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-09-16 0:36 ` Russ Cox
2004-09-17 17:21 bmaroshe
2004-09-20 8:44 Aharon Robbins
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