Hello Massimo,
Massimo Maggi wrote (ao):
> SSDs have low latency but a high price per GB,
> Traditional hard disks have high latency, but high sequential read/write
> speed and low price per GB.
> Is possibile to use a SSD for metadata, which requires many seeks and is
> relatively small, in a special "RAID mode" with a traditional hard disk
> for the extents of the real data?
> A cheap but performant SSD (maybe 32 GB) + a big and fast HD (maybe 1.5
> TB, or two in RAID0 - 3TB ), wouldn't create an array much cheaper than
> a ssd-only array of the same size, and much faster (in
> not-only-sequential workload) than one or two traditional HDs in RAID0?
> Would it work?
If you talk RAID0 (eg no redundancy), you could RAID0 one or several
traditional disks, and use the SSD as a journal device. That would be
ext3/4 only btw.
With mdadm you could create a RAID1 and use --write-mostly:
-W, --write-mostly
subsequent devices listed in a --build, --create, or --add com-
mand will be flagged as 'write-mostly'. This is valid for RAID1
only and means that the 'md' driver will avoid reading from
these devices if at all possible. This can be useful if mirror-
ing over a slow link.
Where the 'slow link' would be the traditional disk. But this is raid1 and
doesn't help in your case (but couldn't resist the need to mention it :-)
Sander
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