Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:33:15 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup... |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm hoping in-memory databases will just kill off the current crop > totally. That solves all the IO problems - the only thing that goes to > disk is the log and the backups, and both go there totally linearly unless > the designer was crazy.
How does this play with massive (ie hundreds or thousands of gigabytes) databases? Surely you can't expect to put it all in memory?
Chris
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