On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:18:33PM -0800, Rob Wultsch wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the things VMware is working on is double writes, per > > previous discussions of how, for example, InnoDB does things. > > The world is moving to flash, and the lifetime of flash is measured > writes. Potentially doubling the number of writes is potentially > halving the life of the flash. > > Something to think about...
Modern flash drives let you have more write cycles than modern spinning rust, so while yes, there is something happening, it's also happening to spinning rust, too. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
