On 3 Jun 2004, Brian Pontius wrote: > Is anyone aware of a way to cause the md devices to use some system > memory as a write cache? (maybe through mdadm?). I have looked > everywhere and cannot seem to find anything about such a feature. Linux uses system memory to cache writes; adding a second layer of caching is really quite unlikely to add anything except a second point of failure, unless your system memory is battery backed... Daniel -- Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. -- Felix Frankfurter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html