From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 17:25:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD8910656C0 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7AF8FC17 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5NHPBGp058759; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:25:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n5NHP8eh058756; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:25:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:25:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: FreeBSD Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20090623155204.GB42357@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Message-ID: References: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org> <20090623145227.GA22803@thought.org> <20090623155204.GB42357@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:24 -0000 > 99.8% solution waiting for the 99.9% solution. > > As for "emulating a hard drive", its only slow relative to potential it's a nonsense to pay for emulation layer that slows down real devices. And random filesystem writes could be much faster on flash than on disk - if properly designed