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Posted May 15, 2012 16:35 UTC (Tue) by aorth (subscriber, #55260)
Parent article: A bcache update

Cool! I like the idea of using faster, less-reliable storage as a layer above slow, more-reliable storage. On that note, another interesting read/write through cache is RapidDisk's RapidCache. Check it out:

http://rapiddisk.org/index.php?title=RapidCache

RapidCache uses RAM, so you can't cache AS MUCH, but it's probably faster... probably some scenarios where you'd want to use one or the other depending on your data set, applications, etc.

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Posted May 16, 2012 6:01 UTC (Wed) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link] (1 responses)

RapidCache does exactly what the LRU block cache already does. There is no gain in fixing and setting aside an amount of RAM to do RapidCache.

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Posted May 16, 2012 10:42 UTC (Wed) by aorth (subscriber, #55260) [Link]

Ok, it's a bit over my head, but I'd imagine there must be some benefit to RapidCache. Surely the developer had a legitimate reason to warrant developing it?