On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +0000, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in > cluster situations. > > In performance tests with iSCSI, gave peformance improvements of 2-10x that > of iSCSI alone when Postmark or Bonnie loads were applied from 8 clients to > a single server. Evidence suggests even greater differences on larger > clusters. A detailed performance analysis will be vailable shortly via a > technical report on IBM's CyberDigest. > > This module was developed during an intership at IBM Research by > Ming Zhao. Please direct comments to both Ming and myself. I don't quite understand the need for this. Do you need this module because your iscsi target doesn't use the pagecache on the server? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
