From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Mar 13 21:57: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EF937B719; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA57433; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:56:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2E5vAp16089; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:57:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Terry Lambert Cc: Stephen.Byan@quantum.com (Stephen Byan), bright@wintelcom.net ('Alfred Perlstein'), mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs), sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman), scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:55:21 GMT." <200103140555.WAA04683@usr05.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:57:10 +0100 Message-ID: <16087.984549430@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200103140555.WAA04683@usr05.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >> >If NT and FreeBSD both support hinting of metadata writes, it's only a >> >matter of time before the hardware support appears. >> >> I have been looking for a long time for a PCI NVRAM card at a reasonable >> cost, anyone know of any with a reasonable price ? > >How much NVRAM do you need? > >It seems to me that you can get a PCI card to plug a PC-CARD >into the back of a regular PC at Fry's for pretty cheap, and >that there is no lack of memory cards in the PC-CARD/PCMCIA >form factor. There you run into a speed problem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message