>>>>> "Mario" == Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> With regards to data storage, one major step in this direction is the >> "integrity" patch that went into the kernel last winter (2.6.28?). Mario> That's far from being end-to-end. Actually, it is even against Mario> the end-to-end argument. End-to-end means from application to Mario> application. Oracle has a custom (as in non-POSIX) async I/O submission interface called oracleasm. Hooking into my Linux kernel block integrity infrastructure I can protect the I/O all the way from within the Oracle DB context in userland to the drive firmware and back. We're working on a generic (as in POSIX-like) interface that allows data integrity passthrough for normal applications. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
