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Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"
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.
This is just a followup to yesterday's article about Solid State Disks. Geesh.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I've been waiting for this for years. I want one so bad I can taste it.
I hate disks. They are so slow. My HD is constantly the bottleneck of my system.
This is some great stuff, and I'm glad that it seems to be cheap as well. Of course, this isn't going to hit mainstream for at least a couple of years, and then it will be even cheaper and probably faster as well^.^
That is, if something else doesn't hit the mass market first.
Actually, in XP you can turn off the page file completely.
This idea is ancient.
Google on "PrestoServe".
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.
Great, until yoru battery back up dies and you lose your entire fs.
Not to mention: BSD is dying!