From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Speeding up reading with RAID1 and --write-mostly
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:11:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140915141133.0a4da9ad@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140913162301.GB14969@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:23:01 +0200 martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
wrote:
> also sprach Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br> [2014-09-13 13:56 +0200]:
> > Try a bcache or something like it
>
> The problem with a cache is that the data have to be read once from
> the slow disk anyway, whereas I am proposing to keep a shadow copy
> on rotational disk, really, just in case the MMC may need to be
> removed at some point.
>
It is a persistent cache though. So it only needs to be read once.
If the cache SD is the same sizes as the main device then it should never
ever need to read again.
But I suspect you will find that SD cards aren't really fast enough for your
needs. It wouldn't hurt to experiment on just an SD card and see how it
performs.
NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-13 6:01 Speeding up reading with RAID1 and --write-mostly martin f krafft
2014-09-13 11:56 ` Ethan Wilson
[not found] ` <CAH3kUhGEaon77fpNm2mjRwPbNMZe9BLK3eA6LTB4xQeg0hMF-Q@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-13 16:23 ` martin f krafft
2014-09-15 4:11 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2014-09-15 7:44 ` martin f krafft
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