DHCPD performance -- solid-state disks?

[Bruce Hudson]

> I've always been uncomfortable with the idea of basing everything on
> ramdisk. The fsync in dhcpd is there for a reason...

    A long time ago, for another application, we used to use battery
backed, write through RAM caches in front of real disks. The batteries
just had to last a few minutes, long enough to flush the cache onto
the disk. That would give you the best of both worlds, non-volitile
storage at RAM speeds; assuming such a device still exists. 
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