From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 15 17:03:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA08866 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:03:36 -0700 Received: from hermes.cybernetics.net (hermes.cybernetics.net [198.80.51.103]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA08860 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:03:32 -0700 Received: (from james@localhost) by hermes.cybernetics.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA03856; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:16:13 -0400 From: James Robinson Message-Id: <199504160016.UAA03856@hermes.cybernetics.net> Subject: Re: Just how fast can we go... (was: Re: SCSI target) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504150257.TAA19418@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 14, 95 07:57:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 967 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > [cc: trimmed to hackers, seems the best place, since we are talking > > about both scsi and 100MB/sec ether :-)] [deleted discussion of whether or not it would be useful] Sounds like it would be worth the effort for academic reasons alone. If I had two machines at home that had SCSI and needed to get them to talk, I'd seriously like to be able to just drag a SCSI cable between them, and poof! Could someone talk a bit about the possiblities of sharing disks this way? Where does kernel caching get in the way? What's this about page swapping protocols? Would that be considered loosely coupled multiprocessing via shared memory? Or just point me to a place to educate myself :-) James James Robinson wholly endorses: FreeBSD | Zappa | Tull | Albermarle Ale | XFree86 | Seagull acoustic guitars | Quotes du Jour: "Little man, I give the watch to you." | "Hail Ants"