Re: [tlug] Making better use of SSDs?

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:53:15PM +0200, Francois Cartegnie wrote:
> Le 28/05/2012 23:04, Attila Kinali a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> That's bcache. [..]

There are bcache and flashcache for this.
Looks like bcache is used/pushed by google, flashcache by facebook.  
Both seem to be usable, but have not made it into the kernel.

Christian