From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <magallon@unizar.es>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is there something like multi-device fan out ?
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:14:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4942E234.4070203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081212115311.GA15948@citd.de>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-12 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 23:04 Is there something like multi-device fan out ? J.A. Magallon
2008-12-11 23:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-12 11:53 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2008-12-12 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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