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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:51:35PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This is only truly feasible when the nodes are homogeneous. They will
>> not be as there will be physical locality (esp. bits like device
>> proximity) concerns. 

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:22PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Huh?  The nodes are homogeneous.  Devices are either local or proxied.

Virtualized devices are backed by real devices at some level, so the
distance from the node's physical location to the device's then matters.


-- wli