Hi,
In my understanding dm-cache is usually used with fairly fast spinning
hard drives as the "slow" device. Because of this the cache is not used
very aggressively and sequential accesses skip the cache. Is it possible
to configure dm-cache for a scenario where the fast disk is a
state-of-the-art SSD, but the slow disk is very slow especially so that
sequential reads and writes are significantly slower than on the fast
device?
I'd like it to work as a very aggressive writeback buffer, so that all
or at least close to all writes are done to the fast device if there is
at least some free non-dirty space left. And sequential reads should
also be promoted fairly easily. In addition there should be aggressive
demotions to make room for future promotions always keeping a sizable
buffer available.
So the goal would be to achieve the performance characteristics of the
fast device for all kinds of use cases even when the backing slow device
is at least a magnitude slower.
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Lauri Niskanen
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