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Basically I'm looking for a way to mimic Windows' ReadyBoost.

I asked this question on Unix.SE to get an idea of whether this was even possible and it seems like it is. Appparently there is a cachefs filesystem I can use to do this.

  • Flash drive: /dev/sdc1 (fs: vfat)
  • Main partition: /dev/sda5 (fs: ext4)

How can I configure Ubuntu to do this?

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It seems rather strange that your primary partition for your system is vfat and not ext4 – Reuben Swartz Mar 18 '11 at 23:29
@Reuben: Ooops. I got them mixed up. Sorry. – Nathan Osman Mar 19 '11 at 2:26
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Wish you'd mentioned that you wanted the root partition earlier; that gets trickier, although I'd suspect that sufficiently evil initrd/pivot_root hackery could make it work. – geekosaur Mar 19 '11 at 3:21

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Unfortunately, this is not currently possible. CacheFiles has only been implemented for NFS so far. Another upcoming possibility is CleanCache. Currently CleanCache only has two backends: one for xen tmem, and one for storing cached pages in compressed ram. Hopefully a third backend will be written to store the cached pages on block devices like flash drives.

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Actually, it looks like it might be fairly easy. apt-get install cachefilesd and read the documentation.

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Unfortunately, after reading the man page, I am still having a bit of trouble figuring it out. – Nathan Osman Mar 28 '11 at 22:53
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Have you actually tried it geekosaur? man page says it's for caching network filesystems... I found someone mounting nfs on 127.0.0.1 to use it, but no performance analysis. – turbo Jun 19 '11 at 23:22

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