Yes. I mentioned this in my thread. And also I contacted Chris, ;-) -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of J.P. King Sent: 星期一, 五月 24, 2010 18:41 To: Andrew Gabriel Cc: ZFS Discussions Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZIL device brainstorm] intel x25-M G2 has ram cache?
> What you probably want is a motherboard which has a small area of main > memory protected by battery, and a ramdisk driver which knows how to use it. > Then you'd get the 1,000,000 IOPS. No idea if anyone makes such a thing. > > You are correct that ZFS gets an enormous benefit from even tiny amounts if > NV ZIL. Trouble is that no other operating systems or filesystems work this > well with such relatively tiny amounts of NV storage, so such a hardware > solution is very ZFS-specific. No comment on how good or otherwise it is, but I just came across this: http://www.ddrdrive.com/ Which appears to be looking to provide something for OpenSolaris... (And some other minority interest OS called Windows). Julian -- Julian King Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
