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Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"

Posted by Hemos on from the long-live-the-disk dept.

andfarm writes "A few days ago, I sat in at a presentation of a what seems to be a new file system concept: Conquest. Apparently they've developed a FS that stores all the metadata and a lot of the small files in battery-backed RAM. (No, not flash-RAM. That'd be stupid.) According to benchmarks, it's almost as fast as ramfs. Impressive." The page linked above is actually more of a summary page - there's some good .ps research reports in there.

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  1. Cost by Sophrosyne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. As of October 2001, Conquest can be used effectively for a hardware cost of below $200.
    For a whooping 512MB's no doubt.
  2. Re:well and good by cruff · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They've been saying the same thing about the demise of tape for large storage applications (we have over a petabyte at work). Tape is still going very strongly.

  3. Re:wow, if it only could be cost effective... by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "wow... thats all i have to say, something like this could make waiting over a min or two to boot totally obselete... sort of like a "turn on" welcome to your OS of choise type of thing.."

    Kinda like Windows CE!

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