Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:21:37 +0200 |
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In article <4623BE2E.2020800@s5r6.in-berlin.de> you wrote: > I meant that the central requirement on the design and implementation of > audio subsystems is an (ideally guaranteed) bounded maximum of > latencies; and that's exactly the major point where I heard that there > are problems with ALSA driver components in userspace. You were talking > about throughput of storage systems, for which latencies of the software > part of the stack do not play such a central role. Therefore your > comparison appeared off the mark to me.
Unfortunatelle Latency is critical for a number of critical applications like databases or file based transaction systems (mail, news) - mainly the users of fsync().
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