[rescue] SS10 HD bracket - now what is...

[dave at cca.org]

apotter at spankingnuns.com writes:

>schiller at zaphod.agrijag.com said:
>> Do you use the machine as an NFS server? The only thing those nvsimms
>> are used for is NFS acceleration. And then you need the proper
>> software. 

>Sorry if I'm late posting, catching up....

>This is simply not true.  The prestoserve docs read that they provide a 
>cache for ALL non root fs writes.  NFS wins, so do local (non root fs) ops.

But local processes aren't blocking on a disk write. Remote NFS
client processes are.

There's a small advantage still, in that the buffers are being moved 
from main memory to battery backed memory, but that sort of thing
is better solved through raid or journaled filesystems.

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