Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Yup - interesting and very niche product - it seems like it's only obvious
> application is for the Postgresql WAL problem :-)
Well, you could do it for any journaled system (XFS, JFS, ext3, reiserfs).
But yes, it seems specifically designed for a battery backed journal.
Though the article reviews it for very different purposes.
Though it was a Windows review, and I don't know of any way to make NTFS
use a separate device for a journal. (Though I expect it is possible
somehow).
John
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>
> The real differentiator is the battery backup part. Otherwise, the
> filesystem caching is more effective, so put the RAM on the motherboard.
>
> - Luke
>