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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:57 +0000
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J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> > Local disk cache was great for AFS back around 1992.  Typical networks
> > were 10 or 100Mbps (slower than disk access at the time),
> 
> Would a disk cache on SSD make any sense?  Seems like it'd change the
> latency tradeoff.

It could, as could using a battery backed RAM cache.

David