Re: write-intent bitmaps

2008-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:13, Peter Rabbitson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > Are there plans for supporting a NVRAM write-back cache with Linux > > software RAID? > > AFAIK even today you can place the bitmap in an external file residing on a

Re: write-intent bitmaps

2008-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:15, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may have missed the "much higher" part of the previous paragraph. > And given the reliability of modern drives, unless you have a LOT of > them you may be looking at years of degraded performance to save a few > hours

Re: write-intent bitmaps

2008-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 27 January 2008 22:21, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday January 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00921.html > > > > Are they regarded as a stable feature? If so I'd like to see > > distributions supporting them by default.

write-intent bitmaps

2008-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00921.html Are they regarded as a stable feature? If so I'd like to see distributions supporting them by default. I've started a discussion in Debian on this topic, see the above URL for details. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.coker.com.au/