RapidDisk 8.0.0 now available

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RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network.

I just tagged release version 8.0.0 on GitHub. It is a decent sized release. The changelog notes the following:

  • module: Updated for 5.14 and 5.15 kernels
  • utility: Added NVMe Target support / framework
  • utility: Added support for dm-writecache status readout in API
  • utility: Module checker code now traverses via sysfs
  • utility: Added module checker in daemon
  • documentation: Clean up formatting and add content
  • packaging: Fixed dependencies in spec and debian control files.
  • misc: Cleaned up and optimized scripts to enable rapiddisk/cache on root during boot (thank you Matteo Tenca)

 

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Petros Koutoupis is the self appointed BDFL of the RapidDisk project. Most of his career has been in software development in the data storage industry. He is deeply involved in open source software development and for years has written code for the Linux kernel, various open source device drivers and applications in both the embedded and server spaces.