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From: "krautus@kr916.org" <krautus@kr916.org>
Cc: Linux fs XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: hdd + ssd
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 07:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151024073857.6a77ee5f@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxjCEzE68m66mhdr7KoXG7p515cmrogyT5Yr6S18nUXK9xNnw@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you all for the suggestions!
I'll report back my progress, will take a while .. :)

Bye and have a nice week-end,
Mike

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 23:34:00 +0200
Stefan Ring <stefanrin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com> wrote:
> > YMMV, but here's my take:
> >
> >  * flashcache being a facebook internal dev, probably is the most
> >    largely deployed one. It's clearly production-ready.
> >
> >  * EnhanceIO works fine but I haven't tested it thoroughly. It adds no
> >    signature to the drives so it can be added to existing filesystems
> >    (flashcache and bcache need reformatting). However that means that
> >    bad thing may happen if you're careless -- it's clearly targeted at
> >    always-on servers.
> >
> >  * bcache works fine but the latest fixes haven't been backported, so
> >    you should probably use it only with latest (4.2, 4.3) kernels. It's
> >    not very mature yet but it's *friggin' fast*.
> >
> >  * dm-cache is the easiest to set-up with the lvmcache command (if your
> >    distro is recent enough of course). Like very very easy. It's
> >    unfortunately the slowest of the pack, apparently. Doesn't need
> >    reformatting IF your existing FS already lives in a LV.
> 
> Very good summary, thanks! Do you also happen to know if all of these
> retain cache contents across reboots?
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-24  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22 18:23 hdd + ssd krautus
2015-10-22 18:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-10-23 11:48 ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-10-23 21:34   ` Stefan Ring
2015-10-24  5:38     ` krautus [this message]
2015-11-02 12:05     ` Emmanuel Florac

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