Turing Award Winner On The Future of Storage

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @01:55AM from the even-smaller-bits dept.

weileong writes "Ars Technica highlights an interview at ACM Queue with Jim Gray, a winner of the ACM Turing award *(among other things) by one of the pioneers of RAID (among other things). Many issues touched upon, including: "programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device." "So disks are not random access any more?" "That's one of the things that more or less everybody is gravitating toward. The idea of a log-structured file system is much more attractive. There are many other architectural changes that we'll have to consider in disks with huge capacity and limited bandwidth." Actual interview has MUCH detail, definitely worth reading."

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Some asshat on the future of blah blah by stratjakt · 2003-09-17 01:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In the future people will wear hats on their feet and hamburgers will eat people!

I for one welcome our sequentially accessed overlords.

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Re:Solid state is the way to go. by grub · 2003-09-17 02:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Woo! I'm fay-moose! ;)

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This is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-17 02:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dude, your page has a VBS Trojan on it.