Hrm, I finally got onto one of my TODO items a while ago which is an HSM (IOW: cache) target for device-mapper ;) The design of my HSM target covers remote storage as well as arbitrary slow local storage hierachies. Let's compare our code and see if there's any mutual stuff to merge or pros and cons of the different approaches when I post something shortly. Heinz On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 11/27/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > The technical paper describing our motivations and some performance > results has finally made it through IBM's clearance process. It is > available here: > > http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/ba52bef8b940e7438525723c006bafea?OpenDocument > > -eric > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
