Messages in this thread | | | From | (Harald Milz) | Subject | Re: Swap over network | Date | Thu, 1 May 1997 12:10:51 +0200 |
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From: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz) Subject: Re: Swap over network To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Organization: Linux.DE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 5B 4E 65 50 F5 99 2B 20 55 C1 B0 56 FC C4 00 X-Nospam: Unsolicited ads are unwanted and will be proofread for $199/hr.
John Wyszynski (wyszynsk@clark.net) wrote: > > That is the potential flaw with stripping regardless; the fact that multiple > machines are involved has no effect in this as only disk drive failures result > in data lost. The whole point of stripping is to boost performance at the
I'm not sure whether adding the network latency to the time required for the raw disk write adds much performance... and there are many potential points of failure including the network. If one part of the chain breaks, data is lost.
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