Re: [zfs-discuss] hybrid drive: flash and platters

2010-05-25 Thread Brad Diggs
Hello,As an avid fan of the application to flash technologies to the storage stratum, I researched theDMCache project (maintained here).  It appears that the DmCache project is quite a bit behindL2ARC but headed in the right direction.I found the lwn article very interesting as it is effectively a

[zfs-discuss] hybrid drive: flash and platters

2010-05-24 Thread David Magda
Seagate is planning on releasing a disk that's part spinning rust and part flash: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/21/seagate_momentus_xt/ The design will have the flash be transparent to the operating system, but I wish they would have some way to access the two components sep