Comments on: If we only had the spiffy name… https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: coreyography https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45786 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:58:45 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45786 Apple is a “mainstream” OS, that gets the benefit of modern, blazing-fast SSDs to make their implementation shine. ReadyBoost mostly used slower USB sticks (and Vista’s general perceived suckage made ReadyBoost look like turd wax anyway). While Dragonfly’s swapcache (and probably ZFS’ implementation) are technically adept, they are niche technologies in niche OSes (from the mainstream press’s point of view) that wouldn’t get much print no matter how good they were.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45784 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:46:47 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45784 So it looks like the answer is that OS X is the last to get this functionality, but the first where it’s noticed by the press.

]]> By: Zoey4Ever https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45783 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:17:44 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45783 I’d say Solaris with ZFS was first to use SSDs as a cache. See http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2008/07/01/hybrid-storage-pools-in-cacm/

»I wrote an article about the hybrid storage pool (HSP); that article appears in the recently released July [2008!!!] issue of Communications of the ACM. You can find it here. In the article, I talk about a novel way of augmenting the traditional storage stack with flash memory as a new level in the hierarchy between DRAM and disk«

]]> By: Richard https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45782 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:16:28 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45782 Except that it’s a tiered storage solution, not merely caching; not quite the same.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45781 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45781 And I’m sure there’s people at Microsoft making the same face as me about it.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2012/10/31/if-we-only-had-the-spiffy-name/comment-page-1/#comment-45780 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:30:13 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=10651#comment-45780 Windows had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost earlier than DragonFly had swapcache.

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