[Gllug] Battery-backed SAS controllers

[Rich Walker]

Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net> writes:

> Hi Rich,

>> I have a battery-backed RAM PCI card sitting on a shelf at work. Bought
>> off Ebay for a server that it doesn't fit. Email me on Monday and I'll
>> dig out the details.
>
> Thanks for the offer, but about 600GiB of storage is required, so
> actual rotational media is most likely required.

This is the battery-backed RAM cache from some kind of disk store
unit. I assume that under Linux you'd partition it, and use each
partition as the journal for a separate rotating file system.

cheers, Rich.

>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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