Best available technology for layered disk cache in linux
- by SpliFF
I've just bought a 6-core Phenom with 16G of RAM. I use it primarily for compiling and video encoding (and occassional web/db). I'm finding all activities get disk-bound and I just can't keep all 6 cores fed. I'm buying an SSD raid to sit between the HDD and tmpfs.
I want to setup a "layered" filesystem where reads are cached on tmpfs but writes…