From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cory Coager Subject: Re: support for physical ramdisk Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:59:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4D37890B.3060808@gmail.com> References: <4D377D66.5020609@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-bcache-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org I was hoping to enable write back with the use of a battery backed ramdisk. I'm simply substituting the SSD for a physical ramdisk. The ramdisk would outperform the SSD and would probably be safer during power loss than a SSD (assuming the battery is in good condition). On 01/19/2011 07:22 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote: > It'd function, but performance would be worse than just using the > pagecache, bcache does a whole lot of extra work to get around the > limitations of SSDs and the pagecache is blazing fast. Why would you > want to do that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html