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Message-ID: <47DFBD99.2080501@davidnewall.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:33:21 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
CC: david@...g.hm, 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
Daniel Phillips wrote:
> You will need:
>
> * Two Violin 1010 memory devices
>
> * Four UPS units each rated for one hour at 600 Watts
>
> * Two servers, each with at least two 8x PCI-e slots
>
> * One SAN with a bunch of 15K rpm scsi disks
>
Honestly, this isn't at all what I understood you to be talking about.
In your very first post you described ramback as "a new virtual device
with the ability to back a ramdisk by a real disk." I assumed "ramdisk"
to mean the Linux psuedo-device. I never understood that you meant an
external device, in fact I thought ramback was *instead of* a Violin.
Since you're talking about external ram, it survives operating system
crashes and of course that is not such a big deal as I was thinking.
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