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? -- 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