On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Al Hopper wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Albert Chin wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:02:24AM -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote: > >>> It would also be nice for extra hardware (PCI-X, PCIe card) that > >>> added NVRAM storage to various sun low/mid-range servers that are > >>> currently acting as ZFS/NFS servers. > >> > >> You can do it yourself very easily -- check out the umem cards from > >> Micro Memory, available at http://www.umem.com. Reasonable prices > >> ($1000/GB), they have a Solaris driver, and the performance > >> absolutely rips. > > > > The PCIe card is in beta, they don't sell to individual customers, and > > the person I spoke with didn't even know a vendor (Tier 1/2 OEMs) that > > had a Solaris driver. They do have a number of PCI-X cards though. > > > > So, I guess we'll be testing the "dedicate all NVRAM to LUN" solution > > once b68 is released. > > or ramdiskadm(1M) might be interesting...
Well, that's not really an option as a panic of the server would not be good. While the on-disk data would be consistent, data the clients wrote to the server might not have been committed. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
