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A Semi-Radical Approach To Avoiding fsck
Dru writes: "This is an article about a hardware technology that is largely unknown in the new Unix community. In theory, with this inexpensive hardware, your BSD or Linux box could start doing guranteed reboots in under 2 minutes (no fsck required) and super fast database writes. It could leapfrog all of the journaling filesystem projects as well. Yes, I wrote the article. The article is long, detailed, and mentions FreeBSD often. However, I do believe it is relevant to any other PC Unix. If enough people learn about it, maybe they will start demanding it from their favorite hardware vendor." With RAM and hard drive space both continuing to decline, I wonder how the speed / use curve for individual PCs' storage (from L1 cache to backups) will evolve. With a similar bent, Arek urges you to "take a look at our company's Solid State Disk Drives." How'dja like 8 or so gigs of DRAM next time you edit a video or burn a CD? -
A Semi-Radical Approach To Avoiding fsck
Dru writes: "This is an article about a hardware technology that is largely unknown in the new Unix community. In theory, with this inexpensive hardware, your BSD or Linux box could start doing guranteed reboots in under 2 minutes (no fsck required) and super fast database writes. It could leapfrog all of the journaling filesystem projects as well. Yes, I wrote the article. The article is long, detailed, and mentions FreeBSD often. However, I do believe it is relevant to any other PC Unix. If enough people learn about it, maybe they will start demanding it from their favorite hardware vendor." With RAM and hard drive space both continuing to decline, I wonder how the speed / use curve for individual PCs' storage (from L1 cache to backups) will evolve. With a similar bent, Arek urges you to "take a look at our company's Solid State Disk Drives." How'dja like 8 or so gigs of DRAM next time you edit a video or burn a CD?