Re: Thread implementations...t

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:21:16 +0200


Hi,

> SCSI block copy worries me. Nobody I know uses disk->disk SCSI facilities
> which makes me suspect if we implement it drive firmware will die left
> right and centre.

I think so, too. But IMNSHO the API should be general enough to allow such
things to be implemented later even if we end up with doing an in-kernel
read/write loop instead for lots of cases now.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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