Additional ext4-backed mount point for high-throughput I/O caching (besides `/kaggle/working`)
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## 🚀 Feature
Provide an additional mount point backed by a physical device (`ext4`), separate from `/kaggle/working`, to use as a high-throughput I/O cache (e.g., `/tmp`).
## Motivation
* The container root (`/`) appears to be provided via an overlay filesystem; write/metadata performance on overlay can be slower or less predictable than on a host-backed volume such as `/kaggle/working`.
* Some applications default to `/tmp` for I/O-intensive caches; on overlay this default can become an I/O bottleneck.
* `/kaggle/working` is relatively fast and can be an alternatives to `/tmp`, but its capacity is limited to \~20 GB per session, which is sometimes insufficient to host checkpoint of LLMs (\~100GB).
* An additional fast endpoint for caching has the potential to better utilize the instance’s compute resources (e.g., T4, P100) that are often bottlenecked by disk I/O.
## Additional context
I benchmarked sequential I/O and observed both writes and reads to be slower on `/tmp` (overlay) than on `/kaggle/working` (host-backed). Write throughput on `/tmp` is especially unstable; it sometimes gets ~5–10× lower in my tests.
* [🕵️ I/O Performance Test in Kaggle Kernel](https://www.kaggle.com/code/tatamikenn/i-o-performance-test-in-kaglle-kernel)
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研究方向
先檢視 issue 的 I/O 基準測試和現有的容器掛載設定;報告中未指出任何實作檔案或測試。將由實體裝置支援的額外 ext4 掛載與 /kaggle/working 分開定義,然後驗證它是否提供更大、更快的快取路徑,同時不改變現有的掛載行為。
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- 技術堆疊
- docker, linux
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- infrastructure, operating-systems
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- 功能
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- 5/5
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- 一週以上
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- 停滯
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- 基本清楚
- 新手友好度
- 25/100