Re: [GTALUG] Recommendations for a root filesystem

2018-04-19 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
There is md-cache or you could try bcachefs. I have used md-cache caching to SSD and it looks to make a really significant speed improvment. I tried bcache a few years ago but it was a pain since it was not yet integrated into the Fedora code base and although bcachefs looks interesting I be

[GTALUG] Recommendations for a root filesystem

2018-04-19 Thread David Collier-Brown via talk
I'm running Fedora, and want a filesystem with a write cache that I can put on flash, as I occasionally run some evil write-intensive tasks. I'd love to simulate the Sun trick of flash for write cache and ephemeral for read cache. Alas, my brain is roughly at the samfs/qfs level (a predecessor