Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday June 26, nodes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Posting it here seems the best thing to do.
> 
> To the inventor goes naming privilege and I'm calling this one softer raid.
> It is a form of storage raid implemented in software, as contrasted to
> software and hardware raid which are dependent on using required hardware.
> 
> To create a loop filesystem is straight forward. The commands are dd,
> mkfs.*, mount -o loop. Basically what I propose is that the image file is
> copied to another harddisk (in the case of ide not on the same cable) and
> it too is mounted in conjunction of the original with cooperation. When a
> read request for a block of say 100k is made, the kernel pulls 50k from
> each disk - maybe a simple doubling of throughput.

Sounds a lot like "RAIF" - ask google for details.

NeilBrown
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