Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

[David Newall]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> You will need:
>
>   * Two Violin 1010 memory devices
>
>   * Four UPS units each rated for one hour at 600 Watts
>
>   * Two servers, each with at least two 8x PCI-e slots
>
>   * One SAN with a bunch of 15K rpm scsi disks
>   


Honestly, this isn't at all what I understood you to be talking about. 
In your very first post you described ramback as "a new virtual device
with the ability to back a ramdisk by a real disk."  I assumed "ramdisk"
to mean the Linux psuedo-device.  I never understood that you meant an
external device, in fact I thought ramback was *instead of* a Violin. 
Since you're talking about external ram, it survives operating system
crashes and of course that is not such a big deal as I was thinking.
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