Re: dedicated logging devices

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 14:51:35 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0700, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> Then again, if you are using an nvram card as the shared disk, the
> performance might not be as big an issue as the space overhead. It will
> be interesting to see how it all interacts ;-)

Absolutely. Devices like hardware RAID controllers have been logging
to NVRam for years. So do Sun PrestoServe NFS boxes, and NetApps, as
far as I know. Supporting that sort of configuration would be great
for Linux.

Cheers,
 Stephen

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