Sujet : Re: RX2800 sporadic disk I/O slowdowns
De : craigberry (at) *nospam* nospam.mac.com (Craig A. Berry)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 20. Oct 2024, 14:42:37
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On 10/19/24 10:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:52:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
The context is one where data loss is not acceptable.
Data loss is unavoidable. If the power goes out, all computations in
progress get lost. There’s no way around that.
Yes, there is. It's called battery-backed cache on a RAID controller,
and when the power goes out, any writes in progress still get written
because the battery supplies power to the cache.