Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:08:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Danny Do <ai_quoc@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optimal File System config for 2.5TB RAID5 Message-ID: <20081001090832.GB15939@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <48E33CC6.7050504@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <BAY139-DAV13C8982A51CD9B05C74D5090430@phx.gbl> <48E21C66.8080407@FreeBSD.org> <BAY139-DAV5423DFBF403B32AA0C22690430@phx.gbl> <20080930161407.E16761@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <BAY139-DAV45B9F2CCF6913F5533E3090430@phx.gbl> <20080930205435.B20033@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <00ee01c92346$69508fa0$3bf1aee0$@com> <20080930224447.GA58065@icarus.home.lan> <20081001083637.C7317@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48E33CC6.7050504@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:03:02AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I've occasionally wondered why there isn't a simple device commonly available > which consists of a few hundred MB of battery backed (or otherwise persistent > in the face of power loss) RAM that can plug into a PCI slot and fulfil that > function generically for any disks in a machine. Solid state hard drives are > getting there, but they're still too expensive and not really fast enough yet. You mean this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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