LVM-Cache on fresh Ubuntu server install

[Stephen Partington]

from my reading the sequential r/w wont change much, but your random r/w
will.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2016-07-08 13:02, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> And success. Server is now up with LVMcache and boots nicely.
>> Very educational!
>>
>> http://cryptworkslinux.blogspot.com/2016/07/ubuntu-1604-home-server-and-lvm-cache.html
>>
>
> Neat!  There are a few problems with having your / on LVM, and this is one
> of them, but as you found, it's possible to make it all work.  I will try
> this with /home as the cached LV, because my / is on a regular partition on
> the SSD instead of on an LV.  And then see what bonnie++ or a similar
> benchmark[0] reports for /home before and after the cacheing change.
>
> [0] There are 5 species of mendacity, each worse than the last:  Lies,
> damned lies, statistics, benchmarks, and vendor promises.
>
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