On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Andrea Suisani <sick...@opinioni.net> wrote: > On 02/28/2012 04:52 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, james<ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone considered managing a system like the DragonFLY swapcache for >>> a >>> DBMS like PostgreSQL? >>> >> >> https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=388112370932 >> > > in the same vein: > > http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ > > from the main page: > > "Bcache is a patch for the Linux kernel to use SSDs to cache other block > devices. It's analogous to L2Arc for ZFS, > but Bcache also does writeback caching, and it's filesystem agnostic. It's > designed to be switched on with a minimum > of effort, and to work well without configuration on any setup. By default > it won't cache sequential IO, just the random > reads and writes that SSDs excel at. It's meant to be suitable for desktops, > servers, high end storage arrays, and perhaps > even embedded." > > it was submitted to linux kernel mailing list a bunch of time, the last one: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/10/13 > > > Andrea
I am pretty sure I won't get fired (or screw up the IPO) by saying that I have a high opinion of Flashcache (at least within the fb environment). Is anyone using bcache at scale? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
