Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
by rybosome on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:08PM
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Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
It didn’t even occur to me that the file systems will need to change to fully take advantage of NVRAM. I wonder at what point the abstraction will stop leaking and require another higher layer to account for differences in performance. I’m sure the OS will need tuning, but applications might not unless they’re pretty bare metal.
Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
by zuck9 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:23AM
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One of the reasons why Apple's new file system APFS was developed was optimization for flash storage. HFS+ was designed with floppy and spinning disks in mind.
It didn’t even occur to me that the file systems will need to change to fully take advantage of NVRAM. I wonder at what point the abstraction will stop leaking and require another higher layer to account for differences in performance. I’m sure the OS will need tuning, but applications might not unless they’re pretty bare metal.