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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 05:18:26 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Paul Jakma <paulj@alphyra.ie>
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tmpfs is going to be _much_ faster than any external bus-connected
NVRAM solution

create a ram disk on a PCI connected video card and journal to that to
compare if you like (PCI bulk writes suck for speed)




  --cw





On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:42:04PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
    On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
    
    > *why* would you want to to do this?
    
    :)
    
    to test performance advantage of journal on RAM before going to spend
    money on NVRAM...
    
    >   --cw
    
    --paulj
    
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