Re: support for external persistent cache

[Cory Coager <ccoager@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:04:09PM -0200, Roberto Spadim wrote:
> check:
> Key Specifications
> 
>     * 500GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive capacity options   (hard disk
> like, maybe 100mb/s with 7200rpm   - it?s you hd disk (/dev/sda in my
> example) )
>     * 7200-RPM spindle speed
>     * 4GB SLC NAND solid state memory   (SSD like, maybe 300mb/s   -
> it?s you ssd cache disk (/dev/sdb in my example) )
>     * 32MB of drive-level cache  (is it ddr3? ddr3 is 10000mb/s, maybe
> less, sata is 3gb/s    - it?s the linux/computer ram memory)
>     * SATA 3Gb/s with Native Command Queuing (3000mb/s)
> 
> what this disk do?
> 
> operational system write to (hd) and read from (hd)
> 
> hd:
> write/read in memory
> if not in memory, read from ssd
> if not in ssd, read from hd
> 
> write can be async
> when loser energy, save memory to ssd, 32mb is fast to write, with
> 300mb/s ssd speed you can use a super capacitor and have 1 second of
> life...
> after write to ssd, write to hd

Sounds about right.  Can we make it happen?