Re: kernel work week of 3-Feb-2010 HEADS UP

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> : [write cache]

>    Yes, it's theoretically possible by creating a small partition
>    on the SSD (separate from the swap partition) and assigning
>    all of HAMMER's UNDO FIFO disk blocks to it.

I was thinking in terms of something entirely swap-backed; but now that I 
think about it, I can see that it's not possible with the way swap works. 
Having a "unified" SSD cache seemed so neat...

Sorry about the noise.


MAgnus