On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 01:51  PM, Lord Isildur wrote:

> to just get the performance of aligned accesses, we dont need to modify
> block sizes and such stuff. an an example, read the paper linked to 
> from
> this; http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/stray/traxtent_abs.html
> (brought to you by the same folks who did soft updates and raidframe)

Thanks, I'm aware of the excellent CMU paper. In fact, if anyone wants 
a way to get the complete physical geometry of Maxtor SCSI disks just 
by reading mode-pages, email me and I can supply the details.

  My concern is with the proposed backward-compatibility mode, which I 
fear subtly breaks the failure semantics which systems with persistent 
storage rely upon to recover.

Regards,
-Steve
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