Merging copy offload
Merging copy offload
Posted Jun 23, 2023 17:17 UTC (Fri) by riking (subscriber, #95706)In reply to: Merging copy offload by ju3Ceemi
Parent article: Merging copy offload
Cloud virtualized disks, and generally any networked block devices seem like an obvious candidate for a late joining use case with huge perf wins. Sending an XCOPY over your network connection saves a lot of network bandwidth which is your most constrained pipe. Clustered filesystems like Ceph can probably do a triangle copy, where host A asks host B to send data to host C.