Re: Does informix is reliable?

Posted in 1999

Mark D. Stock — Tue, 18 May 1999 14:53:22 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Tim Schaefer wrote: > > Clownster, > > Have you thought about using Linux RAM disks for SE? > > Then the whole data base could be in memory. We used to do this back in the 80's on a Pyramid machine before Turbo was even a twinkle in a programmers eye. In fact the whole /tmp directory was a RAM drive. > Kinda throws a whole new twist on things. Dump it out for a > backup in seconds. I'll be experimenting with this one myself. I'm sure I don't need to go into just how difficult it was to make changes to these tables though. ;-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.informix.com/idn |///// / //| |http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 838250 2325 |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 2000 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+