Re: Hude read/write cache

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jan 14, 2004  20:40 +0100, Jürgen Scholz wrote:
> I got a small server, which main purpose is routing and dialup besides being
> a repository for files. This system is very noisy. Because of that I want to
> stop the disks from spinning, when the system is in regular usage (standby,
> routing..). This should happen through a read and write cache which keeps
> the most often used files in RAM (like log files, bash, ...), so that there
> is no need for the system to access the (physical) hard drive.
> I would like to use a regular filesystem with a sort of transparent cache.
> Any ideas?

Look for the laptop-mode patches, they do exactly this.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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