> > Hopefully, eventually the storage developers will realize the value > > behind ordered commands and learn corresponding SCSI facilities to > > deal with them. > > Eventually, drive manufacturers will realize that trying to price > guage people who want advanced features such as TCQ, DIF/DIX, is the > best way to gaurantee that most people won't bother to purchase them, > and hence the features will remain largely unused.... I doubt they care. The profit on high end features from the people who really need them I would bet far exceeds any other benefit of giving it to others. Welcome to capitalism 8) Plus - spinning rust for those end users is on the way out, SATA to flash is a bit of hack and people are already putting a lot of focus onto things like NVM Express. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html