Re:The problem with conventional databases
by dfranke on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @04:58AM
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You might imagine that the disk would write-cache only an amount of data that it could write to the surface with the energy stored in its capacitors after it detected a power failure.
That's exactly what I assumed, at least for high-end disks. Any idea why they don't do that? It seems like a pretty trivial hardware feature that would save an awful lot of software complexity.
That's exactly what I assumed, at least for high-end disks. Any idea why they don't do that? It seems like a pretty trivial hardware feature that would save an awful lot of software complexity.