Albert Chin wrote: > 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.
But if you want to quickly see _what_ advantage you may have this is a good option I think. Victor _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
