Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Jun 21 16:38:27 EDT 2007


"Drew Van Zandt" <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> writes:

> Flash hard drives are out there, that's close... 

Too slow I'm told.

> I saw SRAM-based hard drives once upon a time, but that was so long
> ago I don't know if they still exist.

I don't think they want a drive, they want something like a
battery-backed cache but accessible from user space.

> and this is interesting.
> http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480&p=2

Hmmm, interesting... Thanks!

-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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