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TIL Microsoft has patented offloaded I/O: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120079583A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120079583A1/en

• huhtenberg 5y ago
  This describes their ODX tech, when a file copying between two machines can be initiated and managed from a third node. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/storage/offloaded-data-transfer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/st...
  • nousermane 5y ago
    > file copying between two machines can be initiated and managed from a third node. Isn't that something FTP, a 50-year-old protocol can do too?
    • huhtenberg 5y ago
      Same general idea, yeah. What they patented is their enterprise-oriented implementation of it.
  • pasc1878 5y ago
    So the same as Novell's ncopy?