On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:51:08PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200503022115.j22LFnWk083926@marlena.vvi.at>, "ALeine" writes:
> >phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: 
> >
> >> I gave up on journalling myself because IMO it complicates
> >> things a lot and the problem it solves is very very small.
> >
> >If only hardware manufacturers were to equip hard drives with
> >a mechanism to ensure atomic writes.
> 
> I would prefer "If only some bloddy laywer would stop suing
> any person who tries to market a NVRAM PCI card" :-(

Damn - there is a patent or leagal restriction on something like that?
Well - I think that many gbde users are running notebooks so
it is required to be available in other form factors as well.
I could imagine doing a USB full/high speed umass device.

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