[Info-vax] RX2800 sporadic disk I/O slowdowns
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Oct 21 08:35:13 EDT 2024
On 2024-10-19, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:52:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> The context is one where data loss is not acceptable.
>
> Data loss is unavoidable. If the power goes out, all computations in
> progress get lost. There?s no way around that.
Bollocks. It's called checkpointing and restart points for compute
based operations. It's called transaction recovery for I/O based
operations.
Simon.
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