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Storage is typically either fast and small (SSD), fastish and large-ish (Spinning Disks), or very large and very slow (s3fs, sshfs, etc). Computers use caching to keep frequently used data closer to the CPU, and have for decades. The goal with CacheFS is to use the same principles that make RAM appear as fast as L2 to a CPU and make large/slow volumes appear as fast as small/fast volumes.
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Storage is typically either fast and small (SSD), fast-ish and large-ish (Spinning Disks), or very large and very slow (s3fs, sshfs, etc). Computers use caching to keep frequently used data closer to the CPU, and have for decades. The goal with CacheFS is to use the same principles that make RAM appear as fast as L2 to a CPU and make large/slow volumes appear as fast as small/fast volumes.
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What
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CacheFS is a FUSE file system that acts as a local mirror for files on a large/slow drive. Running under the assumption that bigger disks are slower, it attempts to keep a copy of your file data on a small/fast disk, without losing the drive capacity of the large/slow disk.
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This is not a [dropbox][http://www.dropbox.com] replacement. I love dropbox and use it frequently. The ultimate goal is to have a volume that has unlimited storage capacity (say, s3fs) that acts as fast as your local drive. It could also help with laptops that have tiny SSDs and an external drive. With the addition of an offline mode you could have access to the files on your external drive while away from home if they happen to be cached.
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This is not a [dropbox](http://www.dropbox.com "Dropbox") replacement. I love dropbox and use it frequently. The ultimate goal is to have a volume that has unlimited storage capacity (say, s3fs) that acts as fast as your local drive. It could also help with laptops that have tiny SSDs and an external drive. With the addition of an offline mode you could have access to the files on your external drive while away from home if they happen to be cached.
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You could theoreticaly use this to create a hierarchy of volumes from a ramdrive through an SSD, Spinning disk, and cloud storage. I'm not sure that this would gain you anything, but it sounds cool!
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To Be Implemented
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There is currently no way to specify how much space on the small/fast disk to use. If the small disk runs out of space you are SOL.
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The time to complete write operations (or any fs modifications) is the time it takes to modify both the slow disk and the fast disk.
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The time to complete write operations (or any fs modifications) is the time it takes to modify both the slow disk and the fast disk. This needs to be changed so that modification operations happen on the cache, and then go to the slow disk in the background.
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There is no dashboard or other way to look into the health/status of a cachefs mountpoint.
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