On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Richard Elling wrote:
The win is nonvolatile main memory. When we get this on a large, fast scale (and it will happen in our lifetime :-) then we can begin to forget about file systems, with an interim step through ramdisks. This already exists for many household/personal devices today, so it is really just a wait-until-Moore's-Law-catches-up game.
Yes, I am eagerly waiting for the memory-mapped non-volatile mass storage device with all the safeguards of zfs and performance gradually approaching that of main memory. It is interesting that really primitive storage devices found in low-power devices already have an edge in this regard.
Using SATA feels like we are just poking at it with a long stick. It blocks progress.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
