Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755411AbYLLWOc (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753996AbYLLWOY (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:24 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33651 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753576AbYLLWOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4942E234.4070203@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:14:12 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Schniedermeyer CC: "J.A. Magallon" , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Is there something like multi-device fan out ? References: <20081212000452.0ff5dfd9@werewolf.home> <4941A517.2010704@zytor.com> <20081212115311.GA15948@citd.de> In-Reply-To: <20081212115311.GA15948@citd.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 17 Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > And if you want to be absolutly sure. > > RAM is cheap nowadays, plug in enough RAM (no swap!) so you can copy the > image to burn into a tmpfs before starting to write them. > No disc IO involved at all. ;-) > You don't have to copy it to tmpfs, either. Just let the cache do its job. -hpa -- 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/