mingzhao/dm-cache
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Generic block-level cache utility based on Linux device mapper framework
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2010-05-07 · latest 2022-08-16
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…old. Some of them even use Linux's device manager or the block device subsystem explicitly... https://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/lvmcache.7.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt…
comment by cbsmith · 2022-08-16 · in How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency -
For Linux specifically, there are https://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache and http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ as well, which let you use arbitrary filesystems on top. I would bet that Linode is using one or the other of these.
comment by derefr · 2013-09-07 · in Linode SSD Beta -
…FlashCache (although LRU is an option). Anyone know what prompted the name change and code fork? [1] http://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache [2] http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~zhaom/dmcache/index.html
comment by philips · 2010-05-07 · in FlashCache - a general purpose writeback block cache for Linux