plinehan wrote:

> "Leyne, Sean" <Sean@...> wrote:
>
> > There are a number of hardware solutions which have made the
> > need for such "hot" management a thing of the past.
>
> > Those solutions are:
>
> > - PCIe SSDs (97000 Read and 32000 Write random 4 KB IO/s)!!!
> > - SATA SSDs (35000 Read and 3300 Write random 4 KB IO/s)!
> > - Battery backup cached disk controllers (some with 4GB of
> > write cache)
> > - disk controllers with up to 128GB of SSD based Read cache
> > - increases in RAM supported in servers to 256GB
>
> Hmmm.... my question would then be, exactly how many Firebird
> servers run on that sort of hardware? I would respectfully
> suggest very few - RAID arrays for some, maybe.

I think the point was that since hardware and relevant OS support is now
so easy to come by and cheap that the features you're asking for in FB
may be better solved by means of such hardware.

Kjell
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