Re: [Debconf-discuss] RAID1 on a laptop / bcache
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:05 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> I've had a discussion with one of you at DC14, and since I don't
> remember who that was, here it is for everyone! ;)
Might have been me, that rings a bell.
> We were talking about the idea of using a SDCard in a RAID1
> configuration with a rotational disk, mainly for speed.
My main motivation was protecting against HD/SSD death.
> idea was to put all the readily read stuff on a RAID1 with the
> rotational disk flagged --write-mostly, so that all reads come from
> the (fast) SDCard.
SD cards usually aren't that fast :)
> Meanwhile, I have discovered a better approach:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt
>
> which looks really cool for this sort of job.
>
> Now just someone has to package bcache-tools ;)
Another one from IRC:
https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/
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bye,
pabs
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