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Those RAM sticks currently have SATA controllers embedded. Its another layer of abstraction. The promise is eventually it won't.
by justincormack 12y ago
Those RAM sticks currently have SATA controllers embedded. Its another layer of abstraction. The promise is eventually it won't.
- tryp 12y agoI'm not sure which ones you're referring to, but the NVDIMMs I'm familiar with [0] are are normal DRAMs with an additional hold-up supercap, controller, and flash. When power goes away, the controller streams DRAM contents to flash. Linux block device Drivers [1] exist as does some filesystem support [2] for ext4fs. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/27/674 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/27/674 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/23/121 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/23/121