2009/9/2 Paul Richards <paul.richa...@gmail.com>: > Is there a way to combine a large slow drive with a fast small drive > in such a way that the faster drive simply becomes a cache for the > larger drive? > > I imagine a computer where I'd like to have a small fast SSD and a > large but slow spinning disk. I'd like to put the two block devices > together so that I'm presented with a single logical block device, > where the operating system is using the SSD as a cache (either > inclusive or exclusive, write-though or otherwise) of the spinning > disk. > > Is there some magic in LVM that can do this? > > If there is nothing at the block device level can it be done at the > filesystem level? >
This looks close: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~zhaom/dmcache But unfortunately this isn't available in a standard Debian installation. Perhaps I simply need to wait a while longer. -- Paul Richards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org