write-through RAM disk, or massive caching of file system?
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I have a program that is very heavily hitting the file system, reading and writing randomly to a set of working files. The files total several gigabytes in size, but I can spare the RAM to keep them all mostly in memory. The machines this program runs on are typically Ubuntu Linux boxes. Is there a…
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Consider using an ext4 filesystem using fast-and-loose mount options: to postpone writing data from cache back to physical disk. Other than that, you could use to union-mount a tmpfs-filesystem on top of your regular filesystem, do all the writing a…
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