linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:06:26 -0800
From:	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:55, david@...g.hm wrote:
> if you are not measuring the time to get from ram to disk (which you are 
> not doing in your ramback device) syncs are meaningless.

There was a time when punchcards ruled and everybody was nervous about
storing their data on magnetic media.  I remember it well, you may not.
But you are repeating that bit of history, there is a proverb in there
somewhere.

> > Why am I reminded of old arguments like "if men were meant to fly, God
> > would have given them wings"?  Please just give me your microsecond
> > scale transaction processing solution and I will be impressed and
> > grateful.  Until then... here is mine.  Service with a smile.
> 
> if you don't have to worry about unclean shutdowns then your system is not 
> needed. all you need to do is to create a ramdisk that you populate with 
> dd at boot time and save to disk with dd at shutdown. problem solved in a 
> couple lines of shell scripts and no kernel changes needed.
> 
> if you want the data to be safe in the face of unclean shutdowns and 
> crashes, then you need to figure out how to make the image on disk 
> consistant, and at this point you have basicly said that you don't think 
> that it's a problem. so we're back to what you can do today with a couple 
> lines of scripting.

Feel free.  You use your script, and somebody with a reliable UPS or
two can use my driver, once it is stabilized of course.  Just don't be
in business against them if being a few milliseconds slower on the
uptake means money lost.

Daniel
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