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Date:      21 May 2019 11:01:50 -0400
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB to increase RAM
Message-ID:  <20190521150152.01D8D20145C597@ary.qy>
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR04MB049571F2BA1149AC4E36D41980070@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

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In article <MWHPR04MB049571F2BA1149AC4E36D41980070@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> you write:
>Windows has a feature called "ReadyBoost" that can use a USB drive to
>increase RAM.

ReadyBoost uses an SSD as a cache between RAM and the regular disk.
More details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

To do more or less the same thing with ZFS, add the USB disk as a
cache device to your disk pool.  Look at the zpool man page, and
search for "Cache devices".




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