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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 04:50:01PM +0000, Xen wrote:
> The reason I'm wanting to use it at this point is to speed up
> booting (although unimportant) but mostly to make a more snappy
> system while running, ie. for instance just application startup.

I doubt it'll speed up booting, which occurs infrequently so dm-cache
will not have reason to promote those blocks above others.

- Joe