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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. right.... by hawkbug · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And when the battery goes dead, bye-bye data. Stuff like this scares me. I'm concerned enough about losing all my data on a current hard disk that can exist without power - if I had to keep my machine pumped full of electricity all the time, I'd be even more paranoid about losing stuff at random.

  2. huh by cybercuzco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great, until yoru battery back up dies and you lose your entire fs.

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