On Wednesday 22 Mar 2017 23:48:06 Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:36 +0000 > schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>: > > You have me thinking now. I have a couple of spare 1TB SSDs here, and > > my workstation is a 12-core i7 running on a 256GB NVMe drive with 32 > > GB RAM. > > > > Maybe I should put the SSDs into a RAID-1 to contain the system (the > > same as they were in the old, now defunct box), then use the NVMe for > > bcache. What do you think of that idea? I'm not desperately short of > > space, but I've none spare either. > > I'm not sure if bcache can use NVMe at their full potential... Maybe > head over to the bcache list and ask there. I think it faces some write > serialization issues while NVMe should better work with multi-queue > scheduler. > > If you're going to use mdraid, maybe better look into mdcache.
Ah, yes, I see what you mean. > But your results would be interesting. :-) So I thought too. :-) For the moment I think I'll just cogitate quietly. Thanks for the idea, which may yet see some fruit. -- Regards Peter
