Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:20:20 -0800 |
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On Thursday 13 March 2008 13:34, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:17:56 -0800 > Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net> wrote: > > > So we have a flock of people arguing that you can't trust Linux. Well > > maybe there are situations were you can't, but what can you trust? > > Disk firmware? Bios? Big maybes everywhere. > > The traditional and proven method to constructing a reliable system is > to assume that no component can be fully trusted. This is especially > true for new code. > > By being paranoid about everything, failures in one component are > usually contained well enough that one failure is not catastrophic. > > In order for ramback to get appeal with the people who are paranoid > about data integrity (probably a vast majority of users), you will > need some guarantees about flush order, etc...
I disagree. Never mind that it already does provide such guarantees, just echo 1 >/proc/driver/ramback/name. But if you want the full performance you need to satisfy your paranoia at a higher level in the traditional way: by running two in parallel or whatever.
Daniel
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