Hm, if that IDE speed is coming from the write-cache on the drive, you
may as well just put your log on a ramdisk. :) Of course, log
integrity might suffer on a crash.
Seriously, unless you -really- trust that write cache, be careful!
-Eric
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 13:23, Florin Andrei wrote:
> >From a pure performance perspective, i wonder if anyone tried to put the
> logdev on IDE while using SCSI for the actual XFS disks/arrays.
>
> Theoretically, the new IDE drives should be quite fast, but anyway, if
> anyone tried that, i'd like to hear whatever good/bad things happened,
> performance-wise.
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> "Still wondering why they called it 'United Linux'. Firstly it sounds
> like a football team and secondly wouldn't 'Turbo Susiva' have sounded
> much better?" - Alan Cox
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