WRITEBOOST(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, listen up — this is writeboost, and it's the little utility that creates dm-writeboost device-mapper mappings. yes, that's the whole job. and it does it flawlessly. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSYS 🌸

writeboost [ -u ] [ device ]

like, that's it. that's the whole synopsis. short. iconic. no notes. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so writeboost is a utility whose entire personality is creating dm-writeboost device-mapper mappings, and it does that according to the definitions living in the /etc/writeboosttab file. that file is the blueprint, bestie. the config. the whole vibe. writeboost just reads it and makes the mappings happen. ✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• device — act on the device that's sitting in the first field of the /etc/writeboosttab file. and if you don't hand it a device? it goes ahead and acts on all the devices listed in /etc/writeboosttab. all of them. every single one. main character energy fr. 👑
• -h, --help — shows you the usage and the options. your lil "what do i do here" button. 🫶
• -u — un-maps all the mappings. or, if you gave it a device, it un-maps only that given device. it's giving cleanup era. 🧹

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

writeboosttab(5) — go read that one too, it's the moment. iykyk. 💜

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👑 DM-WRITEBOOST 👑

dm-writeboost is software that uses log-structured caching to accelerate block IO. no cap, that's what it does — it makes your block IO go zoom. 🏎️✨

it was written by Akira Hayakawa <ruby.wktk@gmail.com> and it's implemented as a loadable module for Linux.

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

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

https://gitlab.com/onlyjob/writeboost

that's where you find it. go. 🫶

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

1.20160718

yep. that's the one. iconic number honestly. 💅

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🎀 DONATIONS 🎀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>

periodt. 💅

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

Copyright 2015-2017 Libre Solutions Pty Ltd (http://raid6.com.au)

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✨ LICENSE ✨

okay so legally speaking, bestie, here's the deal — and i'm keeping this exactly as serious as it needs to be:

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.

no warranty bestie. none. zero. the GPL said what it said. 😭

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. 🌈

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and that's the whole page, babes 💖 — this was the writeboost manual for perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-01-09, living its best life as WRITEBOOST(8). go make some mappings. slay. 👑✨