-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 01 June 2009 18:03:38 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday June 1 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 01 June 2009 17:23:42 Randall R Schulz wrote:
Do you know any block devices these days that aren't disks or flash drives? Optical devices (CD, DVD, BluRay), iSCSI, FCoE, ATAoE, nbd, loopback devices, ram disks And how many of them (that are not in fact disks or intermediaries to disks) are suitable for acting as the physical storage for a VMware virtual disk? Certainly not any of the optical types.
Aside from performance, why not? Most of the time a disk doesn't even have to be writable. It is perfectly possible to have almost all your file system running on a DVD (for example), though from a performance perspective perhaps not desirable
Consumer grade optical media degrades too fast to be really useful for anything that requires regular RW access, and unfortunately any requirement for a any part of a FS to be writeable may require optical media writes to be made whether or not a change is made to the user data on the media. I refer you to... http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ For a starting point for a more detailed technical overview... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkok5WkACgkQasN0sSnLmgLxBgCg5Y9saitg6BSHlpIZ9IgyOKB2 IBEAnA2gHJt7YtXQyegs/nlKy2giveIw =2pUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org