Kernel 3.11 and Fedora 19...

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Sat Sep 7 12:16:46 UTC 2013


On 07.09.2013, Fernando Cassia wrote: 

> Im specially interested in that feature of 3.11 I read about last week
> -whose name I now forget, it wasnt 'lazy writes'' but close to it-
> that would minimize writes to SSDs and extend their life.

I'm not aware of such a feature added to 3.11. In case you mean
"bcache": it works as a block layer cache (similar to dm-cache), which
allows to use a solid state drive to work as a cache for a
rotational harddisk on the same system.



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