Hello,
I am thinking about speeding up a slow drive with ssd caches. I have two small ssds. I consider that I can accept read cache loss, but would love to configure writecache as raid-1. However, it seems that LVM cache advice always suggests the user opts for either LVM cache (ie. cominbed read&write) OR the writecache (write only), but not both.
Is combining both cache types indeed not possible? A simple explanation for why would be of great help.
Thanks!
What do you mean by “both cache types”?
1 =writethrough ?
2 = writeback ?
1= read/write cache, aka dm-cache
2= writecache, aka dm-writecache
wasn’t bcache for what you want to archive ?
“Chapter 13. Enabling caching to improve logical volume performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal” Chapter 11. Enabling caching to improve logical volume performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal
According to the above Redhat document, dm-cache operates in read/write mode while dm-writecache operates in write only mode .
If you want to cache both writes and reads, you just need to use dm-cache. While when only writes need cached, you just need dm-writecache.
As a result, there is no need to use both at the same time.
Btw, LVM supports Mirrored Volumes, so you don’t necessarily need an extra layer of software raid (mdadm)
See:
Thanks everybody, the links, some more reading helped. Am now going for a simple LVM read-write cache - whenever I manage to install F35 afresh on my machine (currently not possible, sadly because of some issue with Anaconda).