Re: support for external persistent cache

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0200, Roberto Spadim wrote:
> ok, your hardware have:
> cpu, memory, disk controller, disks
> 
> and you computer have:
> cpu, memory, disk controler (your hardware)
> 
> if your computer cache don?t sync to your disk controller you will
> lose information....
> 
> check that *memory, is the volatille memory and *disk controller is
> the non volatille memory
> if you tell me that you will never have a *memory, and you have always
> a non volatille memory, no problem, you will never need a kernel
> load... just a boot loader that read previous memory information and
> start in that point... why don?t do this? non volatille memory is not
> as fast as volatille memory
> got the problem?

Sorry, we're still not on the same page.  I would use both a ramdisk
and sata disk.  The ramdisk would act as a persistent cache
(with the battery) for the sata disks.  Enabling write through
would write to the cache first then sync to the sata disks.

Understand what I'm getting at now?
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