On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > I think it is largely the lack of a good reason..  if anyone wants a
> > prestoserve card i have one i dontneed, btw.  the advantage would be
> > in the nfs server;; the cost would be in having a separate codebase
> > just for pmax nfs..
>
> Not really. This should just be a battery-backed RAM, and similar
> hardware exists for other platforms (there are sbus cards, we could
> immagine building a PCI one too - or maybe AGP to have something
> faster). We could have a MI support with MD hooks. This can help NFS
> (mostly NFSv2, here is much less gain to have with NFSv3), but could be
> very usefull for others use: plain FFS without softdeps, or software
> raid-5. If a pci-based hardware like this, with a decent amount of RAM,
> was available, I would certainly be happy to work on it.

It definitely exists.  Go to http://www.prestoserve.com/

Peace...  Sridhar