From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264267AbUANUPZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:15:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264310AbUANUPZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:15:25 -0500 Received: from moraine.clusterfs.com ([66.246.132.190]:56025 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264267AbUANUPT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:15:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:15:07 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Scholz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hude read/write cache Message-ID: <20040114201507.GE1964@schnapps.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Scholz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/