Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

[David Newall]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> The period where you cannot access the data is downtime.  If your script
> just does a cp from a disk array to the ram device you cannot just read
> from the backing store in that period because you will need to fail over
> to the ramdisk at some point, and you cannot just read from the ramdisk
> because it is not populated yet.

Wouldn't a raid-1 set comprising disk + ramdisk do that with no downtime?
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