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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 16 March 2008 23:49, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>>> Mirroring on the other hand, makes a realtime copy of a volume, that is
>>>> never out of date.
>>>
>>> so just mirror to a local disk array then.
>>
>> Great idea. Except that the disk array has millisecond level latency,
>> when what we trying to achieve is microsecond level latency.
>>
>>> a local disk array has more write bandwidth than a network connection to a
>>> remote machine, so if you can mirror to a remote machine you can mirror to
>>> a local disk array.
>>
>> So you could potentially connect to a _huge_ disk array and write deltas
>> to it. The disk array would have to support roughly 3 Gbytes/second of
>> write bandwidth to keep up with the Violin ramdisk. Doable, but you are
>> now in the serious heavy iron zone.
>
> your network will do less then 1 Gbit/sec, so to mirror in real-time (what
> you claim is trivial) you would need at least 24 network connections in
> parallel. that's a LOT harder to setup then a high performance disk array.

by the way, the only way to get this much bandwideth between two machines
is to directly connect PCI-e/16 card slots togeather. this is definantly
not commodity hardware anymore (if it's even possible, PCI-e has some very
short distance limitations)

David Lang


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