Hello Raju,

Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:29:29 PM, you wrote:


RU> Sometimes I am ok with it if it improves file i/o response time by say 25%
RU> I would love to see Solaris have a feature which allows me to configure the 
risk I am willing to take with my data.

RU> By default it should continue to do what it does right now. As a user if I 
can change some configuration that makes Solaris follow the file i/o pattern 
(insecure but quick) as Linux, it will
RU> improve my productivity.

RU> Right now I am running a J2EE application and it does quite a bit of File 
i/o and hence my application runs a bit slower on Solaris x86. My knowledge 
about Unix internals is very limited but as a
RU> user I would love to see my Solaris x86 box beat Linux to complete the same 
task. I am not questioning the validity of current design.

>> 
>> Do you value your data?

RU> Not always. Say on my Java development machine running Solaris x86, I am ok 
if there is a remote chance that my data is corrupt. 
RU> I would not like the same risk on a machines running my business critical 
databases.

Then take a look at fastfs utility.
Additionally using 'format -e' enable write cache on SCSI disks.


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