Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754905AbYCQKya (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:54:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752551AbYCQKyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:54:22 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54863 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065AbYCQKyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:54:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:39:27 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Daniel Phillips Cc: david@lang.hm, David Newall , Willy Tarreau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet Message-ID: <20080317103927.04eef322@core> In-Reply-To: <200803170116.19546.phillips@phunq.net> References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803162252.58274.phillips@phunq.net> <200803170116.19546.phillips@phunq.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 17 > So you could potentially connect to a _huge_ disk array and write deltas > to it. The disk array would have to support roughly 3 Gbytes/second of > write bandwidth to keep up with the Violin ramdisk. Doable, but you are > now in the serious heavy iron zone. Mirroring yes, snapshotting no. > Personally, I like my nice simple design a lot more. So we've all noticed Alan -- 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/