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A general purpose, write-back block cache for Linux.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2010-05-07 · latest 2016-03-20

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  1. Or flashcache: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache Or bcache: https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
    comment by liuliu · 2016-03-20 · in Show HN: Diskache – Combine SSD with HDD on Windows
  2. Too bad it is GPL v2. https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by biobot · 2013-10-09 · in FlashCache at Facebook from 2010 to 2013 and beyond
  3. For reference, the FlashCache project and source code is publicly available on github: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/
    comment by wakaflockafliz · 2013-10-09 · in FlashCache at Facebook from 2010 to 2013 and beyond
  4. …inventing your own SSD caching system is all the rage? We already had flashcache from Facebook : https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ And bcache : http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ However this one isn't kernel-based, so it won't help…
    comment by wazoox · 2013-02-11 · in fatcache - Memcache on SSD
  5. …2006. https://lwn.net/Articles/211246/ dm-cache is the project Facebook's flashcache is based on. https://github.com/facebook/flashcache I'm not sure if there's ongoing work to merge dm-cache or flashcache into the upstream linux kernel.…
    comment by sciurus · 2012-10-11 · in dm-cache: new caching method that operates within the Linux kernel
  6. …server) If money really is an issue then something like flashcache might be a good stepping stone ( https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ )
    comment by colinhowe · 2012-07-23 · in SSDs on AWS - Impact on Conversocial
  7. …has an open source Linux module that uses SSDs as read and write accelerators for regular disks: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache
    comment by patrickgzill · 2012-06-13 · in Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
  8. …ok.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee... (A Facebook job advert for Kernel Engineers.) See also: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ - a write back persistent block cache for Linux, written by some of the Kernel Engineers at…
    comment by nbm · 2012-01-30 · in Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On
  9. …a happy fusion of spinning rust and SSD: flashcache [0] and L2ARC/ZIL [1]. Cheaper win. [0]: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache [1]: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test
    comment by nphase · 2011-03-20 · in Numbers everyone should know
  10. …data protection is what you're looking for. There are two (announced) SSD cache drivers for Linux: http://github.com/facebook/flashcache and http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/30/496
    comment by wmf · 2010-05-29 · in Ask HN: Using 5-drive RAID 0 array as another cache layer