Re: Using SSDs for caching?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2009-06-18T13:58:20Z

On 18. juni. 2009, at 15.56, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Hi all
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> I have heard/read about systems from Sun and NetApp using SDs for =20
> caching. Sun uses different SDs for read and write caching (one =20
> being faster for reads and the other for writes). The storage =20
> solution from Sun is based on Solaris with ZFS.
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> I know too little about filesystems design to know exactly how they =20
> do this, but can someone think of a way this could be implemented in =
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> btrfs? I would think such a cache level could speed up things rather =
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> well.

erm. Obviously, I meant Solid State Drives, SSDs. Sorry about this.