writeboost(8)

writeboost8

Create dm-writeboost device-mapper mappings

Synopsys

writeboost [ -u ] [ device ]

Overview

writeboost is a utility to create dm-writeboost device-mapper mappings as per definitions in the "/etc/writeboosttab" file.

Options

device

Act on given device from the first field of the /etc/writeboosttab file. When not given writeboost acts on all devices listed in /etc/writeboosttab.

-h, --help

Show usage and options.

-u

Un-map all mappings (or un-map only given device).

DM-writeboost

dm-writeboost is a software using log-structured caching to accelerate block IO. dm-writeboost is written by Akira Hayakawa <[email protected]> and implemented as loadable module for Linux.

See more at https://github.com/akiradeveloper/dm-writeboost

Version

 1.20160718

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Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

Availability

 https://gitlab.com/onlyjob/writeboost

Author

 Dmitry Smirnov <[email protected]>

License

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

From writeboost 1.20170616-1.3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.