> It seems unlikely drive manufacturers would get excited about a > sub-optimal solution that does not even approach using the full > potential of the product. You forgot the more important people Mr Customer, would you like your data centre to use a new magic OSD fs or the existing one you trust. Now in my experience that is a *dumb* question because the answer is obvious... > Plus, given the existence of an OSD-specific filesystem (exofs, at the > very least), it seems unlikely that end users who own OSDs would choose > the sub-optimal solution when an OSD-specific filesystem exists. Actually until you can show zillions of users stably using them the people with the money won't buy them in the first place 8) > > ready for the consumer market until 2011. That's not really going to > > convince the disk vendors that OSD based devices should be marketed > > today. > > And you have a similar sales job and lag time, when hacking -- read > destabilizing -- a filesystem to work with OSDs as well as sector-based > devices. 2011 sounds optimistic for major OSD adoption in any space except for flash storage where OSD type knowledge means you can do much better jobs on erase management. -- 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
