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On Wednesday 22 Mar 2017 23:48:06 Kai Krakow wrote: |
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> Am Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:36 +0000 |
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> schrieb Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>: |
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> > You have me thinking now. I have a couple of spare 1TB SSDs here, and |
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> > my workstation is a 12-core i7 running on a 256GB NVMe drive with 32 |
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> > GB RAM. |
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> > Maybe I should put the SSDs into a RAID-1 to contain the system (the |
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> > same as they were in the old, now defunct box), then use the NVMe for |
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> > bcache. What do you think of that idea? I'm not desperately short of |
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> > space, but I've none spare either. |
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> I'm not sure if bcache can use NVMe at their full potential... Maybe |
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> head over to the bcache list and ask there. I think it faces some write |
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> serialization issues while NVMe should better work with multi-queue |
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> scheduler. |
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> If you're going to use mdraid, maybe better look into mdcache. |
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Ah, yes, I see what you mean. |
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> But your results would be interesting. :-) |
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So I thought too. :-) |
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For the moment I think I'll just cogitate quietly. Thanks for the idea, |
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which may yet see some fruit. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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