26 Sep
2008
26 Sep
'08
8:24 a.m.
Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Thre _have_ been people who suggested putting the
journal on a ramdisk
for blazingly fast I/O ... and ISTR that back in the days, one could buy
extension cards for SUNs that carried some battery backed RAM for a
similiar purpose (intended for reliably write caching NFS I/O).
Not just Sun. Those Prestoserve cards were available for a variety of
architectures. I have a few for DEC PMAX, at least one for IBM RS/6000,
and I had heard they were available for HP/9000 machines.
Peace... Sridhar