[8814] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: What I learned at Tokyo Linux World.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Graichen)
Mon May 15 11:38:22 2000
From: news-innominate.list.linux.scsi@innominate.de (Thomas Graichen)
Reply-To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de>
Date: 15 May 2000 15:33:35 GMT
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Ishikawa <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
> I went to an exhibit called Linux World in Tokyo today.
...
> - for really large high-end servers (meaning RAID, I think), VA
> has written a special driver for such controller cards that
> bypasses the SCSI subsystem totally, and the resulting
> driver makes the RAID looks as if it were a block device(!).
> Now back at home, I have a few unanswered questions about
> this, but at least I can see that VA has a known entity
> to work with if the storage system produces hard errors.
> It is now up to their driver to handle it in any way they choose.
> - I was told that the above driver was written by no other than
> their CTO (Chief Technical or Technology Officer?). I thought
> having a hacker in a management type position is interesting.
... tja sascha - da muss du wohl noch a bisserl basteln bis die
leute von uns so beeindruckt sind wie von va linux :-)
t
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