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. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
