Re: Is there something like multi-device fan out ?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 17:14:34 EST


Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>
> And if you want to be absolutly sure.
>
> RAM is cheap nowadays, plug in enough RAM (no swap!) so you can copy the
> image to burn into a tmpfs before starting to write them.
> No disc IO involved at all. ;-)
>

You don't have to copy it to tmpfs, either. Just let the cache do its job.

-hpa
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