Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754827AbYCPWPh (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:15:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753367AbYCPWPZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:15:25 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:41026 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752609AbYCPWPY (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:15:24 -0400 To: David Newall Cc: Daniel Phillips , Willy Tarreau , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803131214.40321.phillips@phunq.net> <20080315205950.GA13012@1wt.eu> <200803151417.13899.phillips@phunq.net> <47DCB347.2060706@davidnewall.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:15:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <47DCB347.2060706@davidnewall.com> (David Newall's message of "Sun\, 16 Mar 2008 16\:12\:31 +1030") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 15 David Newall writes: > Do you mean it should be replicated with a second ramback? That would > be pretty pointless, since all failure modes would affect both. It's > not like one ramback will survive a crash when the other doesn't. It could, in a bit different location maybe, but it isn't a substitute for ordered writes. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/