On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:46 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 4/10/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The obvious question is why? What would this provide that the kernel > > and file systems don't already provide? > > > > Well, kernel provides in-memory page cache, not local disk page cache. > There is some ongoing remote file system local disk cache work being > done, but it applies primarily to AFS and NFS - not block-based > transports such as iSCSI and AOE. The various cluster file systems > may provide something more akin to this, but again, this doesn't > really cover SAN technologies -- not in any sort of a generic way. > Let me know if I'm missing something. still, what is the main benefit of this cache? what u mean "local disk page cache"? use "local disk" as page cache or page cache for "local disk" or something else? ming > > -eric > > -- > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
