Re: dedicated logging devices

From: Xuan Baldauf (technik--reiserfs@exmail.de)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 05:45:51 EST


Just a question:

Is it reasonable to use the 50 bytes of /dev/nvram for logging or is it just
too small?

Xuân. :o)

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:

> 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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