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Comment Re:Linus identifies as a Fin? (Score 1) 203

When Russia invaded Finland in a war of conquest in 1939, it was the Nazis that Russia was aligned with to sanction the attack. See the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was a joint decision among Nazis and Russia to attack Finland. The stupid "what-about-isms" is classic Russia propaganda.

Comment Re:Intel doubles down with VROC scam (Score 1) 119

I think the premium is because Intel had to pour a lot of resources into working around Microsoft's broken operating system; Windows can't boot from storage volumes spanning multiple controllers. Probably a big effort to work around that mess. In comparison, Linux never had that problem, but if booting Windows from NVMe RAID is your goal, VROC looks like the only option from any vendor.

Comment Re:Intel is blowing (Score 1) 109

I think you are a little confused by Intel marketing speak. Actually, you are a lot confused.

-Matt

What the heck are you talking about? Intel devices have a quirky alignment requirement that they made work well in Linux (it's documented in the git logs), but Intel neglected BSD. What part of this do you consider to be marketing?

Comment Re:Intel is blowing (Score 1) 109

P.S. the Intel 600P NVMe drive is also horrid, don't buy it.

http://apollo.backplane.com/DF...

-Matt

According to the Linux kernel, Intel NVMe devices have the block stack stick to certain alignments for performance reasons. Now quoting the above article: "All tests were done on a DragonFlyBSD". I doubt Intel did the same enabling there as they did for Linux.

Comment Intel already posted Linux source for this (Score 5, Informative) 74

If you want to use Linux on this platform in "RAID" mode with the supported BIOS, the source code to enable it is part of this patch series from an Intel developer: http://lists.infradead.org/pip.... It's not pretty, but it sounds like that's just how the hardware works.

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