On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

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> David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu> writes:
>> So does anybody know of a battery backed NVRAM card that can be used
>> with FreeBSD that the ZIL could be offloaded to?
>
> Any CF card or similar will do.  You don't need battery backup for
> flash memory.

I did think of that but is a CF card faster than a good SAS or SATA =20
drive?  Fastest ones I found have a top rating of 45MB/s.  The one =20
battery backed NVARM card that showed up in a google search had a =20
peak rate of 533MB/s.  The question seems moot though since FreeBSD =20
doesn't currently support them.

Thanks for your time,
--
DaveD