On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:23:01 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Roberto Spadim [2014-09-13 13:56 +0200]: > > Try a bcache or something like it > > The problem with a cache is that the data have to be read once from > the slow disk anyway, whereas I am proposing to keep a shadow copy > on rotational disk, really, just in case the MMC may need to be > removed at some point. > It is a persistent cache though. So it only needs to be read once. If the cache SD is the same sizes as the main device then it should never ever need to read again. But I suspect you will find that SD cards aren't really fast enough for your needs. It wouldn't hurt to experiment on just an SD card and see how it performs. NeilBrown