Change cache device from RAM to SSD

[gianfelicevincenzo]

As the title, is it possible to set device cache rapiddisk to SSD instead of RAM? Thank you

[pkoutoupis]

@vincenzogianfelice At the moment, no. The RapidDisk-Cache module and the user-space utilities are only designed to attach RapidDisk RAM drives. Maybe in the future I will change that but for now, it is limited to just that.

[gianfelicevincenzo]

I hope you will implement it because it would be really useful. Since this program is "on the fly" and does not require any type of disk formatting, it would be truly perfect. Unfortunately, the most renowned tools (at least that I know of) require formatting the disk, which is not exactly convenient.

[pkoutoupis]

@vincenzogianfelice Thank you for the feedback. I will definitely keep your comments in mind for future improvements to the software suite.

[gianfelicevincenzo]

Thank you. I also take this opportunity to ask you something that I don't quite understand. Let's say that I create a 4GB rapiddisk and that this gets filled up at a certain point. Will the new data "take the place" of the older ones? Thank you

[pkoutoupis]

RapidDisk-Cache uses a Least Recently Used (LRU) FIFO algorithm to replace data that hasn't recently been accessed and replaces it with new data.

[gianfelicevincenzo]

Thanks for the information. I hope you will take this into consideration as soon as possible, as it is very useful.

[Augusto7743]

An good implementation for an superb software.
RapidDisk is gold ... amazing software for Linux.