Using swapcache to speed up external disk writes?

[ejc]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
wrote:

> Swapcache will speed up accesses to the external disk very nicely, but not
> have much of an effect on write performance.  But writes are already
> buffered to some degree, and NFS clients usually flush modifies files on
> close() for safety reasons (which might be why you see some latency).  That
> can often be turned off on the client but I do not recommend doing so.
>
> The main problem with USB-attached drives is that the I/Os are basically
> serialized, so random access performance is going to be horrible.  For a
> server you really need a SATA attached drive.  Swapcache will improve
> random access performance though once things get cached.
>
>
Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for an eSATA card or
chipset to look for that works well with DragonFly?  I've been using USB
drives for backups, but want to switch to something a little faster and
more reliable.  My computers don't have any extra internal SATA ports free
so I need an expansion card.

Thanks,
Eric


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