On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0500, Ron wrote:
Caches help, and the bigger the cache the better, but once you are
doing enough writes fast enough (and that doesn't take much even with
a few GBs of cache) the recalculate-checksums-and-write-new-ones
overhead will decrease the write speed o
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:13:43 -0500,
Luke Lonergan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David,
>
> > now hot-swap may not be supported on all interface types, that may be what
> > you have run into, but with SCSI or SATA you should be able to hot-swap
> > with the right controller.
>
> That's actu
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:13:57AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification, I knew that PATA didn't do hotswap, and I've
> seen discussions on the linux-kernel list about SATA hotswap being worked
> on, but I thought that scsi handled it. how recent a kernel have you had
> proble
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Luke Lonergan wrote:
David,
now hot-swap may not be supported on all interface types, that may be what
you have run into, but with SCSI or SATA you should be able to hot-swap
with the right controller.
That's actually the problem - Linux hot swap is virtually non-functio
