On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Grant<emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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?
I always just assumed Linux used a cache with SSD just like it does with everything else but I have no experience or evidence to prove that. I know windows doesn't cache writes to USB flash drives, maybe it doesn't cache SSD either.
