Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:17:12 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602011717.LAA09086@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <5377.823120360@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 96 09:32:40 pm
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> Optional: NVram for acceleration of NFS &c. sockets > and a battery for 4-8 Mb ram. Possibly with a little > clock to do refresh so DRAM could be used. (cheaper) This is something we NEED, in order to do any sort of serious NFS service. PrestoServe style devices are handy in many scenarios in addition to NFS - news servers and other systems where lots of metadata updates are happening. I think it should probably be handled as a separate entity from the rest of this (it's not something everyone wants by a long shot). ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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