Re: [tlug] Making better use of SSDs?

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 May 2012 23:18:05 +0800
Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:

> 
> The problem with option #1 (making it into a drive) is that 
> the input/output data is too large for current SSDs (i.e., 
> terabytes in size).  And while the programs are all open 
> source and we could modify them, currently, they don't make 
> use of external disk (SSD) space.  And I'm not sure if doing 
> is straight-forward.

Actually, there is an effort going on to use SSD for hierarchical
storage. Ie use the SSD to cache reads and writes from a normal
harddisk.

I don't remember where i read about it, it was most likely lwn.

			Attila Kinali
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