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SubjectRe: TOE brain dump
FromAlan Cox <>
Date03 Aug 2003 21:52:13 +0100
On Sul, 2003-08-03 at 05:01, Ben Greear wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network 
> > stuff is flashly but pointless.  If you want to serve up data from disk, 
> > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet 
> > connectors on them :)  Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host 
> 
> I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA..
> but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :)

There is a protocol floating around for ATA over ethernet, no TCP layer
or nasty latency eating complexities in the middle

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