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Linux device mapper writecache
Kicking It Into Overdrive
Conclusion
By using the newly introduced dm-writecache
device mapper Linux kernel module, you are able to achieve a noticeable improvement in random write throughput when writing to slower disk devices. Also, nothing is preventing you from using the remainder of the NVMe device in the original volume group and mapping it as a cache to other, slower devices on your system.
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