Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hybrid hard drives are coming to market ( I will soon have one for > testing ) that use flash to cache the rotating media. While the drive > firmware will attempt to figure out what blocks you frequently access > randomly ( not streaming IO ), and try to cache them in the flash, > ATA8 does add commands to allow the OS to explicitly control what > blocks are cached, and it should be in a better position to know what > should be there than the heuristics in the drive firmware. > > Has there been any work done yet ( or even just design ) on > implementing this in linux? Have a look at this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2037810 Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
