[gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 62, Issue 33
Jonathan Buzzard
jonathan at buzzard.me.uk
Thu Mar 16 11:19:30 GMT 2017
On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 20:52 -0400, Aaron Knister wrote:
> *drags out soapbox*
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> Sorry in advance for the rant, this is one of my huge pet peeves :)
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> There are some serious blockers for GNR adoption in my environment. It
> drives me up a wall that the only way to get end to end checksums in
> GPFS is with vendor hardware lock-in.
As I understand it that is a factually inaccurate statement.
You are free to use a DIF/DIX solution which is part of the T10 SCSI
specification and as such an open(ish) standard. That is if you pay a
suitable amount you will get a copy of the standard and are free to
implement it. It is arguably more open than ZFS that has licensing
issues.
Further as I understand it the DIF/DIX solution is actually better than
the ZFS solution on a number of counts, that revolve around it being
baked into the hardware.
JAB.
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Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Fife, United Kingdom.
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