ZFS has a feature called L2ARC, which is an on-disk cache of a pool. Before you say, that's fucking stupid, it's to speed up pools that use network LUNs with local storage. Now if you have a pool of local disks, you could put a memristor drive in as L2ARC and minimize disk access. The only thing ZFS in that case would need are tweaks to enable sort of MAID mode for the pool by caching writes in the L2ARC memristor drive as long as possible.
There's no reason why other filesystems couldn't implement similar features.
Uh, I'm sure the ability to satisfy up to four IOPS (RAID-10) in parallel will beat any single Raptor.
My current 7200rpm RAID1 beats my own 150GB Raptor by a long shot as soon multithreaded IO is in play. The only place where the Raptor has an advantage is when dealing with casual transient IOs, due to lower seek times. Under load, the mirror just kills it.
The OpenSolaris distribution can already install ZFS root and boot, based on the previous putback.
This current putback makes it more robust, especially when it comes to finding the root device after having been swapped to a different port.
What's still missing is multidisk pool and RAID-Z boot support.
Reminds me of Alastair's sci-fi novel "Pushing Ice", where China put also so much stake in nanotech and then eradicated most of its country with grey goo.
It's the same Gutmann that wrote the dramariffic Vista DRM paper. This person's not to be taken seriously. He also wrote some data recovery paper a computer forensics friend of mine reads once a while to cheer up his day.
That may have worked with old drives, forensics experts tell me these MFM/RLL things, but with modern drives and the used recording tech, it's practically impossible. But hey, keep pandering to these myths.
That guy should ask the movie industry whether mixing rastering and raytracing makes sense or not. The defacto rendering engine, Pixar Photorealistic RenderMan, thinks that frankenrendering is a worthwhile thing.
I've a Last LJ 50 Pictures site bookmarked, to see at random what atrocities they're posting. Interestingly, when clicking one of the images, most of the LJ posts linked to were written in Russian. So I'm not really surprised that it's a Russian company who bought it.
I'm actually glad that they're going for the Cedega/WINE option, because like this I can run it quasi natively in Solaris. If it were a real Linux binary, I'd have to run it in a lx zone and bounce everything back to the X server via TCP/IP.
The last time I've perused the section of textbooks for education, I've come across books for aspiring pyrotechnicians and chemists that create pyro-stuff. They've also contained instructions, recipes, handling instructions and whatever else. Because of that, I almost die laughing seeing all the attempts to ban said material on the web.
Working in the cable manufacturing industry, I have first hand knowledge on how easily people want to be screwed over. While we don't do audio cables, it's hilarious to see how companies are immediately willing to pay a hefty extra on a cable, just because it has a different name and imprint. E.g. power conduits for wind power get a 150% mark up over their "standard" variant, which is subject to exactly the same manufacturing process, quality of raw materials and QA.
Trying to make gtkpod work, I've borked my 2nd gen iPod nano. Starting from scratch, I could files make show up but not play. I had the brilliant idea and update to the latest firmware, hoping it was an issue with it. Now I can't make anything at all show up unless it's added with iTunes. Coincidence?
AV companies around the world are going to add the signatures to their lists. Are antivirus applications going to be banned then? I wouldn't be surprised, considering that other moronic law in regards to security/hacking tools.
Never had any glitching in 2K or XP, network load or not. But in Vista I did, and that without much system load at all. These days I'm using Solaris, whose scheduler is sure as hell not optimized for anything media related, and it doesn't glitching either. So yeah, pretty nice working feature.
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I guess the Mitsubishi EVO-X must be reaaaaaaaaally mean... http://www.combatpretzel.com/awful/evox.jpg
ZFS has a feature called L2ARC, which is an on-disk cache of a pool. Before you say, that's fucking stupid, it's to speed up pools that use network LUNs with local storage. Now if you have a pool of local disks, you could put a memristor drive in as L2ARC and minimize disk access. The only thing ZFS in that case would need are tweaks to enable sort of MAID mode for the pool by caching writes in the L2ARC memristor drive as long as possible. There's no reason why other filesystems couldn't implement similar features.
Is this an one way deal? If so, then fuck the US and our politicians in the EU even more for agreeing to that silly deal.
Uh, I'm sure the ability to satisfy up to four IOPS (RAID-10) in parallel will beat any single Raptor. My current 7200rpm RAID1 beats my own 150GB Raptor by a long shot as soon multithreaded IO is in play. The only place where the Raptor has an advantage is when dealing with casual transient IOs, due to lower seek times. Under load, the mirror just kills it.
For the money of that Velociraptor, I'd rather build a RAID-10. I figure increased power draw won't make my power bill explode.
Solaris has some roots in BSD, so it's not wrong.
The OpenSolaris distribution can already install ZFS root and boot, based on the previous putback. This current putback makes it more robust, especially when it comes to finding the root device after having been swapped to a different port. What's still missing is multidisk pool and RAID-Z boot support.
Jesus christ. I guess I should stop drinking industrially packaged coconut water. Who knows where the nuts came from.
Reminds me of Alastair's sci-fi novel "Pushing Ice", where China put also so much stake in nanotech and then eradicated most of its country with grey goo.
It's the same Gutmann that wrote the dramariffic Vista DRM paper. This person's not to be taken seriously. He also wrote some data recovery paper a computer forensics friend of mine reads once a while to cheer up his day.
That may have worked with old drives, forensics experts tell me these MFM/RLL things, but with modern drives and the used recording tech, it's practically impossible. But hey, keep pandering to these myths.
Oh god, Gutmanns bullshit still circulating?
I'd figure the same as with regular harddisks apply. One pass and gone the data is.
But it works for them. And is still faster than pure raytracing.
That guy should ask the movie industry whether mixing rastering and raytracing makes sense or not. The defacto rendering engine, Pixar Photorealistic RenderMan, thinks that frankenrendering is a worthwhile thing.
Until there's full spectrum fluorescent lights, you're not going to pry incandescent bulbs out of my hands!
I've a Last LJ 50 Pictures site bookmarked, to see at random what atrocities they're posting. Interestingly, when clicking one of the images, most of the LJ posts linked to were written in Russian. So I'm not really surprised that it's a Russian company who bought it.
Really? Never heard anything about it. Then again, I'm just reading that shitty east belgian rag called Grenz Echo.
I doubt that article is entirely true. Until there's an actual government formed in Belgium, there'll be no laws being discussed or made whatsoever.
I'm actually glad that they're going for the Cedega/WINE option, because like this I can run it quasi natively in Solaris. If it were a real Linux binary, I'd have to run it in a lx zone and bounce everything back to the X server via TCP/IP.
The last time I've perused the section of textbooks for education, I've come across books for aspiring pyrotechnicians and chemists that create pyro-stuff. They've also contained instructions, recipes, handling instructions and whatever else. Because of that, I almost die laughing seeing all the attempts to ban said material on the web.
Working in the cable manufacturing industry, I have first hand knowledge on how easily people want to be screwed over. While we don't do audio cables, it's hilarious to see how companies are immediately willing to pay a hefty extra on a cable, just because it has a different name and imprint. E.g. power conduits for wind power get a 150% mark up over their "standard" variant, which is subject to exactly the same manufacturing process, quality of raw materials and QA.
Trying to make gtkpod work, I've borked my 2nd gen iPod nano. Starting from scratch, I could files make show up but not play. I had the brilliant idea and update to the latest firmware, hoping it was an issue with it. Now I can't make anything at all show up unless it's added with iTunes. Coincidence?
AV companies around the world are going to add the signatures to their lists. Are antivirus applications going to be banned then? I wouldn't be surprised, considering that other moronic law in regards to security/hacking tools.
Never had any glitching in 2K or XP, network load or not. But in Vista I did, and that without much system load at all. These days I'm using Solaris, whose scheduler is sure as hell not optimized for anything media related, and it doesn't glitching either. So yeah, pretty nice working feature.