[Ksummit-2008-discuss] Suggested topic: possible

[Arjan van de Ven]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 07:17 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>>> just because YOU haven't seen them doesn't mean nobody else saw them.. please don't dismiss
>>>> optimizations done by the people who have just because you haven't seen the devices.
>>> Heh, I haven't even seen Gen I SSDs (and neither have most people) let
>>> alone Gen II.
>>>
>>> I didn't dismiss any optimisations ... I merely said that speculating
>>> about how we should alter the OS based on chinese whispers (or what I
>>> saw in today's slideware) isn't a good methodology. 
>> again it's not speculation...
> 
> Yes it is ... we're speculating about what needs to be done to the
> elevators and block based on a device we haven't seen and can't actually

no you are making a typo here... on a device that *YOU* haven't seen.
Others have, including Matthew, and are tuning the block layer based on their experiments.
Just dismissing that work just because YOU haven't seen the devices is not the right thing to do.