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/

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. I've

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 of slow

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 file system which in turn can