ccache on Mushkin Cache SSD?

PhilSmith · 2018-08-10 13:00:46

Hey guys,

as I'm in the Newbie Corner, I hope you forgive me, if I'm asking a stupid question.
I've only been using Linux since a few weeks, so this is all quite new to me.

I wanna build an aosp-rom for my device (gemini), and am thinking about a good way to use ccache.

I've got a 256GB nvme-SSD I use as my primary drive for the home, root, swap partitions and some btrfs stuff.
I wanna keep having free space on it, so I definitely don't wanna set a 100GB ccache partition there.

For my data I've got a 2TB HDD and I mounted a partition I named "data" for keeping media stuff like music, videos, etc there.

Now I've seen that I also got an oldish 100GB Mushkin Catalyst Cache drive lying around, which would have the ideal size for ccache and would finally be of use again.
So my goal is to having ccache there!
Problem is, that this is not a drive that can simply be partitioned (or can it in Arch?). It is built for working with a Win7 only compatible software called dataplex, and is only meant for caching.
However, I got it to work on win8 using primocache.

I was thinking about setting up ccache on the HDD and then cache that part of the partition with the Cache SSD using bcache.
Does this make sense or does this only mess things up?
Is there a more elegant way I'm missing?

Thanks so much in advance!

Last edited by PhilSmith (2018-08-10 13:02:37)

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#1 2018-08-10 13:00:46

ccache on Mushkin Cache SSD?

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