Operating Systems in Memory (I Wonder...)

[Haarsma, Michael (SAPOL)]

But with tmpfs on reboot you loose it (data, not mind). The i-Will you
don't. Hence my suggestion to look into it. Might be suitable, if not,
well its not, no harm looking :)


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> [mailto:linuxsa-bounces at linuxsa.org.au] On Behalf Of Kim Hawtin
> Sent: Friday, 15 December 2006 11:49 AM
> To: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Re: Operating Systems in Memory (I Wonder...)
> 
> 
> Haarsma, Michael (SAPOL) wrote:
> > Exactly Kym, you are restricted to SATA speeds 'only 
> 150MB/s' but you 
> > get the crazy seek times of RAM + PCI bus latencies. By RAM 
> speeds I 
> > meant latency because during boot there isn't much sustained 
> > read/write so the 150MB/s wouldn't help as much as the ~8ns access 
> > times :)
> > 
> > Could be a handy option to look into David, that doesn't involve 
> > bizarre scripts and additional complexity. As you leave 
> your machine 
> > on all the time, you wont have too many issues with it loosing its 
> > data. Check out some reviews and see if you think it will suit your 
> > needs.
> 
> if you have ram to burn, tmpfs is way faster and cheaper ;)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Kim
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