> On Mar 21, 2016, at 18:17, Kenneth Waegeman <kenneth.waegeman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks! As we are using the kernel client of EL7, does someone knows if that client supports it? > fadvise DONTNEED is supported by kernel memory management subsystem. Fadvise DONTNEED works for all filesystems (including cephfs kernel client) that use page cache. Yan, Zheng > On 16/03/16 20:29, Gregory Farnum wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Kenneth Waegeman >> <kenneth.waegeman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Quick question: Does cephFS pass the fadvise DONTNEED flag and take it into >>> account? >>> I want to use the --drop-cache option of rsync 3.1.1 to not fill the cache >>> when rsyncing to cephFS >> It looks like ceph-fuse unfortunately does not. I'm not sure about the >> kernel client though. >> -Greg > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com