Tag: Flashcache

Flashcache on Proxmox

8 August 2014

Flashcache is a kernel module released by Facebook engineer back in April 2010 to speed up database I/O on a standard rotational drive with the speed of SSD. Since it works by caching filesystem blocks, so it can speed anything on the slow rotational disk. We’ve already use RAID10 with SAS disk on all of our […]

Flashcache on CloudLinux and CentOS and OpenVZ or SolusVM

24 November 2013

Flashcache on CloudLinux and CentOS and OpenVZ or SolusVM Major issue on a hosting server which serve hundreds of website is remain the same: I/O bottleneck. My curiosity began when I received a newsletter from a VPS provider in US, they said they have added SSD as filesystem cache to their server fleet. Flashcache is a […]