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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0803170740440.14887@asgard.lang.hm>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@...g.hm
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
cc: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 23:49, david@...g.hm wrote:
>>> Mirroring on the other hand, makes a realtime copy of a volume, that is
>>> never out of date.
>>
>> so just mirror to a local disk array then.
>
> Great idea. Except that the disk array has millisecond level latency,
> when what we trying to achieve is microsecond level latency.
>
>> a local disk array has more write bandwidth than a network connection to a
>> remote machine, so if you can mirror to a remote machine you can mirror to
>> a local disk array.
>
> So you could potentially connect to a _huge_ disk array and write deltas
> to it. The disk array would have to support roughly 3 Gbytes/second of
> write bandwidth to keep up with the Violin ramdisk. Doable, but you are
> now in the serious heavy iron zone.
your network will do less then 1 Gbit/sec, so to mirror in real-time (what
you claim is trivial) you would need at least 24 network connections in
parallel. that's a LOT harder to setup then a high performance disk array.
David Lang
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