On 05/23/2011 11:01 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Now, the question is, is is there any way to tell EXT3/4 to use a > separate drive as a cache drive for the same purpose? OR, how about > telling CentOS to use a separate drive for caching purposes in the > same way? You can use an external journal on a SSD to speed up at least writes by quite a lot. http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/external-journal-on-ssd/ But, for paranoia's sake, I would RAID1 the SSD with a second SSD. -- Benjamin Franz