RE: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs as root filesystem

[Christopher Hawkins]

Sort of. I did use that but I could never get it to actually cache anything.
My reads never got quicker than the first one, no matter many times I called
the same files... But specifically I've heard talk from people asking about
using local storage for caching, which is not supported under the io-cache
translator. So I would use that if it became available, and if not, I'll
eventually have to figure out why io-cache isn't working.  

Chris  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerker Nyberg [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Christopher Hawkins
Subject: RE: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs as root filesystem


I'm not on the gluster team, but you don't mean the io-cache translator?

http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Translators_v1.3#IO-Cache_Tr
anslator

--jerker

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Christopher Hawkins wrote:

> I use PXE and grab it over the network... No local disk at all. Which 
> leads me to a question for the gluster team: One thing I was hoping to 
> implement was local caching, where I can take say a 20 MB ramdisk and 
> have it solely for caching glusterfs reads. I've heard some chatter 
> about this on the list, but is that something you are planning for a
certain release?