On 22 Apr 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
Andy Poling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you'll be doing alot of writing, the controller can use it's memory to
> coalesce the writes and optimize the parity calculations for writing.
I believe the Linux buffer-cache will try to do the same.
Andy Poling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you'll be doing alot of writing, the controller can use it's memory to
> coalesce the writes and optimize the parity calculations for writing.
I believe the Linux buffer-cache will try to do the same.
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Osma Ahvenlampi
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Sebastien Koechlin wrote:
> We are going to buy an Hardware PCI-SCSI Raid Controller
> (because we need to run SCO for 3-4 months) (probably an
> ICP-Vortex which is enought for 2x 9Go) and most of them have
> Cache RAM.
>
> Is there any improvement using a large amount of Ca
We are going to buy an Hardware PCI-SCSI Raid Controller
(because we need to run SCO for 3-4 months) (probably an
ICP-Vortex which is enought for 2x 9Go) and most of them have
Cache RAM.
Is there any improvement using a large amount of Cache on the
controller? I think Linux uses RAM better than
