Dave, > The OS hints/streams API needs to be aligned to the capabilities that > filesystems already provide *as a primary design goal*. What the new > hardware might support is a secondary concern. i.e. hardware driven > software design is almost always a mistake: define the user API and > abstractions first, then the OS can reduce it sanely down to what the > specific hardware present is capable of supporting. I agree completely. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering