On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:02:02PM -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Erik Mouw wrote: > > > You could use it for an external journal, or you could use it as a swap > > > device. > > > > > > > Let me concur, I used external journal on SSD a decade ago with jfs (AIX). If > > you do a lot of operations which generate journal entries, file create, > > delete, etc, then it will double your performance in some cases. Otherwise it > > really doesn't help much, use as a swap device might be more helpful depending > > on your config. > > it doesn't seem to make any sense at all to use a non-volatile external > memory for swap... swap has no purpose past a power outage. No, but it is a very fast swap device. Much faster than a hard drive. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands | Data lost? Stay calm and contact Harddisk-recovery.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
