[CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Jul 12 00:34:29 UTC 2011
On 07/11/11 5:16 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Who needs bbu when you can get an SSD to work with your ext3/ext4 that is
> sitting on an md raid 1/0/nested 1+0/10?
lI hope your SSD isn't write buffering on commits. many (most?)
consumer priced SSDs can corrupt file systems badly on power failures
during active file allocation operations, and drop pending database
writes on the floor.
If an SSD doesn't do write buffering, its brutally slow relative to its
read speeds. Only the more expensive enterprise drives have 'supercap'
or other power backups for emergency buffer flushing in case of abrupt
power shutdowns.
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john r pierce N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca mid-left coast
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