On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:59:49AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Storage devices are complex enough that they _already_ exhibit behaviour > which is fairly much non-deterministic in a number of ways. Especially > if we're talking about SSDs or large arrays, rather than just disks. If anything, SSDs are more deterministic than rotating storage. Variable numbers of sectors per track, unpredictable sector remapping, track re-reads due to errors during reads ... SSDs seem like a real improvement. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html