Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2011-01-20

Re: support for physical ramdisk

From: Kent Overstreet <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-20 00:22:06

It'd function, but performance would be worse than just using the
pagecache, bcache does a whole lot of extra work to get around the
limitations of SSDs and the pagecache is blazing fast. Why would you
want to do that?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Cory Coager [off-list ref] wrote:
I stumbled upon bcache today and was wondering, how would this work with a
physical ramdisk instead of a SSD?
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