Maximizing hardware with SSD caching via Device Mapper: or, how I got my aging setup's startup time from 8 minutes to mere seconds thanks to Linux.
Maximizing hardware with SSD caching via Device Mapper: or, how I got my aging setup's startup time from 8 minutes to mere seconds thanks to Linux.
Just switched my root-on-SSD home/var-on-HDD setup over to a single-partition dm-cache setup which automatically caches useful blocks... and it all works!
Hopefully, this will speed up Docker and Firefox going forward.
...I did feel like a wizard for having to write my own mkinitcpio hook
Would anyone be interested in a longer write-up on how I got all that working?
#linux #archlinux #dmcache #initramfs