On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:42:04PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> > *why* would you want to to do this?
>
> :)
>
> to test performance advantage of journal on RAM before going to spend
> money on NVRAM...
Journaling to ramdisk has been tried, yes. The result was faster than
ext2 doing the same jobs. Of course, the support for journal to
external devices is still only really at prototype stage.
Cheers,
Stephen
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