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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, pkg-mdadm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: write-intent bitmaps
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:40:20 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801292040.23532.russell@coker.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479EEE38.9070505@rabbit.us>

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:13, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us> 
wrote:
> Russell Coker wrote:
> > Are there plans for supporting a NVRAM write-back cache with Linux
> > software RAID?
>
> AFAIK even today you can place the bitmap in an external file residing on a
> file system which in turn can reside on the nvram...

True, and you can also put the journal of a filesystem on a NVRAM device.  But 
that doesn't give the stripe aggregating benefits for RAID-5 or the general 
write-back cache benefits for everything else.

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27 10:34 write-intent bitmaps Russell Coker
2008-01-27 11:21 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-27 15:12   ` Russell Coker
     [not found]     ` <479E1BB3.2080702@tmr.com>
2008-01-29  7:32       ` Russell Coker
2008-01-29  9:13         ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29  9:40           ` Russell Coker [this message]

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