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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Guy Watkins <Guy@watkins-home.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Intel Smart Response Technology?
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:22:03 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111005102203.27b61a20@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08c701cc830b$91ed7900$b5c86b00$@Watkins-home.com>

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:04:55 -0400
"Guy Watkins" <Guy@watkins-home.com> wrote:

> Does Linux support the Intel Smart Response Technology?

Why not start with a brief summary of WTF is "Intel Smart Response Technology".

> I am building a new computer and will have two 2TB disks and a 64 or 120 GB
> SSD.  I am hoping to use the SSD cache feature.  I think I would configure a
> bios RAID with 1 disk and the SSD as a cache, then use Linux to mirror that
> with the second 2TB disk using the write mostly feature of MD.  But would it
> be better to create a bios RAID1 with both disks and the ssd cache?

If you are looking to use SSD as a cache to HDDs, check out bcache
http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

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With respect,
Roman

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-05  3:04 Does Linux support Intel Smart Response Technology? Guy Watkins
2011-10-05  4:22 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
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2011-10-05  3:30 linux-raid
2011-10-05 17:11 ` Labun, Marcin

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