Re:dm-cache: new caching method that operates within the Lin...
by nwmcsween on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:52PM
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There's also hot tracking RFC patches floating around for the VFS layer. bcache seems quiet nice, there are block layer refactorings going on right now in order to get it merged.
Alas, it is not open source, but it does have some differentiators over bcache/dm-cache. The primary pro's of those two are that they are FOSS.
Major downsides are they they are kernel patches. DM-Cache is a little more difficult as well, in the sense that it is in the DM layer, so you're creating a new device when you apply caching. Contrast with our startup, where we insert ourselves directly into the existing devices (so no need to modify fstab, etc..). Of course, I like to think we have other major differentiators as well, but I won't go on and on about them here..
That being said, this caching (especially SSD-as-caching) space is huge right now, even though it doesn't get much attention in the hot-tech startup world.