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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: "Jürgen Scholz" <juergen@scholz-gmbh.cc>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hude read/write cache
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:15:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114201507.GE1964@schnapps.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC2B59C1.2E87%juergen@scholz-gmbh.cc>

On Jan 14, 2004  20:40 +0100, Jürgen Scholz wrote:
> I got a small server, which main purpose is routing and dialup besides being
> a repository for files. This system is very noisy. Because of that I want to
> stop the disks from spinning, when the system is in regular usage (standby,
> routing..). This should happen through a read and write cache which keeps
> the most often used files in RAM (like log files, bash, ...), so that there
> is no need for the system to access the (physical) hard drive.
> I would like to use a regular filesystem with a sort of transparent cache.
> Any ideas?

Look for the laptop-mode patches, they do exactly this.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 19:40 Hude read/write cache Jürgen Scholz
2004-01-14 20:15 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2004-01-14 22:07 ` Bart Samwel

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