Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
26.10.2011 8:58, Alex Peshkoff wrote: Probably I've missed some details. Capacitor present on HDD is really enough only for making sector's writes atomic. A solution with capacitor to save cache somewhere requires additional flash RAM - in that case not too big capacitor is enough to save

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-3644) Provide names information in input XSQLDA for all data types, not only arrays

2011-10-26 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov (JIRA)
Provide names information in input XSQLDA for all data types, not only arrays - Key: CORE-3644 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3644 Project: Firebird Core

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
26.10.2011 11:05, Ted Miglautsch wrote: The problem with using the energy from rotating to write data is as you remove the energy the rotation slows so it is not possible to write as the disk slows down. It is hard, but I don't see a technical problem in synchronizing write frequency with

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Ted Miglautsch
Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 26.10.2011 11:05, Ted Miglautsch wrote: The problem with using the energy from rotating to write data is as you remove the energy the rotation slows so it is not possible to write as the disk slows down. It is hard, but I don't see a technical problem in

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Lester Caine
Paul Reeves wrote: Everything really depends on the manufactures claims that the capacitors can flush the cache successfully. Can we trust them? It's not just the drives capacity that matters here. Most of the machines I've checked will continue to run for several seconds after mains is

Re: [Firebird-devel] news from kernel 3.1

2011-10-26 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 10/26/11 14:26, Lester Caine wrote: Paul Reeves wrote: Everything really depends on the manufactures claims that the capacitors can flush the cache successfully. Can we trust them? It's not just the drives capacity that matters here. Most of the machines I've checked will continue to