[ale] [semi OT] encouraging and discouraging HDD and SSD observations

[Phil Turmel]

Hi Ron,

On 10/31/2013 10:00 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:

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> By the way, I've heard there's a way an SSD can act as a cache to
> provide fast boots without having to restructure your entire / drive.
> Other than hybrid drives, anyone know how that works?

That's probably a reference to "bcache", a new persistent block device
cache for linux.  I don't know if there's any initramfs support for
assembly yet, but you could roll your own.  That'd do what you're thinking.

Phil