In the recent few weeks I have spent some time for creating yet another slave prefetching tool named "Replication Booster (for MySQL)", written in C/C++ and using Binlog API. Now I'm happy to say that I have released an initial version at GitHub repository. The objective of Replication Booster is same as mk-slave-prefetch: avoiding or reducing replication delay under disk i/o bound workloads. This
![Making slave pre-fetching work better with SSD](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/c2c32184128818cc567068e8915fbd32df8de5a6/height=288;version=1;width=512/http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-mQ6mjg2rgyI%2FTqLl8OA7IkI%2FAAAAAAAAAHU%2FWMYSkqgCsN4%2Fw1200-h630-p-k-no-nu%2Frepl_delay.png)