Just found this: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast13/technical-sessions/presentation/koller which should be helpful in constructing a persistent client-side writeback cache for RBD that preserves consistency. sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html