dm-cache
Generic block-level cache utility based on Linux device mapper framework (by mingzhao)
flashcache
A general purpose, write-back block cache for Linux. (by facebookarchive)
| dm-cache | flashcache | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 164 | 1,588 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dm-cache
Posts with mentions or reviews of dm-cache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.
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Linux storage - NVME caching solutions - Bcache, lvmcache, dm-cache... which one has best performance?
- dm-cache
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
There's a bunch of pretty simple, old products for using SSD's to provided caching for higher latency drives that are all about ~a decade old. Some of them even use Linux's device manager or the block device subsystem explicitly...
https://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache
flashcache
Posts with mentions or reviews of flashcache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.
- How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
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How does the SSD cache work? How much does it improve performance?
It's based on a package called "flashcache", invented by facebook, but no longer used there as I understand it. https://github.com/facebookarchive/flashcache/blob/master/doc/flashcache-doc.txt is a fair introduction to the technology.
- Enabling sequential writes for SSD Cache on DSM 7.0 (DS918+)
- Warning for all Synology user who is using SSD cache function
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dm-cache and flashcache you can also consider the following projects:
EnhanceIO - EnhanceIO Open Source for Linux
Oragono - A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.
diskplorer