diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 956f7eb6492..a16f6ed9631 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
   fuuzetsu = "Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk>";
   gal_bolle = "Florent Becker <florent.becker@ens-lyon.org>";
   garbas = "Rok Garbas <rok@garbas.si>";
+  garrison = "Jim Garrison <jim@garrison.cc>";
   gavin = "Gavin Rogers <gavin@praxeology.co.uk>";
   goibhniu = "Cillian de Róiste <cillian.deroiste@gmail.com>";
   gridaphobe = "Eric Seidel <eric@seidel.io>";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/vmtouch/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/vmtouch/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..767a61c2bb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/vmtouch/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, perl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "vmtouch";
+  version = "git-20150310";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "hoytech";
+    repo = "vmtouch";
+    rev = "4e1b106e59942678c1e6e490e2c7ca7df50eb7a3";
+    sha256 = "1m37gvlypyfizd33mfyfha4hhwiyfzsj8gb2h5im6wzis4j15d0y";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [perl];
+
+  makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Portable file system cache diagnostics and control";
+    longDescription = "vmtouch is a tool for learning about and controlling the file system cache of unix and unix-like systems.";
+    homepage = "http://hoytech.com/vmtouch/vmtouch.html";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.garrison ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c215cc507be..2db8ebd3df0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2986,6 +2986,8 @@ let
 
   vlan = callPackage ../tools/networking/vlan { };
 
+  vmtouch = callPackage ../tools/misc/vmtouch { };
+
   volumeicon = callPackage ../tools/audio/volumeicon { };
 
   wakelan = callPackage ../tools/networking/wakelan { };