In the end, came up with my own solution (homelab quality, not at all production quality, involving tmpfs) - see post at Heavy Disk Usage (I/O) with MariaDB - #14 by awnz
In the end, came up with my own solution (homelab quality, not at all production quality, involving tmpfs) - see post at Heavy Disk Usage (I/O) with MariaDB - #14 by awnz