>> Here is some info on zflashpoint: >> >> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 >> >> It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". >> >> "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of >> Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. >> zflashpoint uses a 32MB buffer for small file writes, combining them >> and dumping them as one big write." >> >> Has anyone heard of development of a similar project for Linux? > > Sounds like a disk cache to me... maybe i'm missing something.
Maybe it's just making up for the too-small disc cache on the stuttering SSDs? The 64MB cache on the non-stuttering ones is supposed to have something to do with it. Can this sort of a "software disk cache" be set up on Linux? - Grant
