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From: fibre raid <fibreraid@gmail.com>
To: Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: anybody using the gc-ramdisk?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:34:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5817fbed1001042034s17fcda0cpb6bdcedbaa5cf689@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xuu2vdfhmavg.fsf@nowhere.com>

Hi Adam,

I think you will find that device pretty effective, though I'm not
sure if it will be faster than SSD in real-world scenarios or whether
you will run into other IO bottlenecks elsewhere. You can only
consider PCIe connected SSD drives like SuperTalent's and FusionIO.
though they may actually be more expensive and for your application,
you do not need a lot of space.

-T

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> wrote:
>
> Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> writes:
>> If I had one I might use it as a fs-cache.
>
> I'm not sure it offers any advantage over plain old system RAM in that
> capacity; I'd be just as well off putting those DIMMs on the
> motherboard.
>
> I can't use plain old system RAM for a journal or a write-intent bitmap
> because system RAM is wiped out in the event of a power failure.
>
>  - a
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 21:16 anybody using the gc-ramdisk? Adam Megacz
2010-01-05  4:24 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-01-05  4:30   ` Adam Megacz
2010-01-05  4:34     ` fibre raid [this message]
2010-01-05 17:03 ` KELEMEN Peter

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