From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 11 00:54:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22321 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22316 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02812; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 01:54:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd002804; Wed Nov 11 01:54:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA07678; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 01:54:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811110854.BAA07678@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tagged queueing and softupdates To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811110257.TAA28938@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Nov 10, 98 07:57:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The SCSI command set allows you to flag > > tags for ordered sequencing. > > Yes, but softupdates does not make use of this mechanism even though, > via 'bowrite' it could. I agree on the value of this. But this seems to infringe on the USL patent for "Delayed Ordered Writes". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message