Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Anyway... databases are always(?) IO bound.  I'd try to figure out how to 
> make a bigger hose (or more hoses) between the spindles and the mobo.

What I keep waiting for is the drives with flash memory built-in to 
mature.  I would love to get reliable writes that use the drive's cache 
for instant fsyncs, instead of right now where you have to push all that 
to the controller level.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD