Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Hello all, > > after testing around in real world scenarios we found it would be a great > feature if glusterfs could cache whole files that are read-only opened (or > rw-opened and not modified) on the clients. We have lots of setups with small > to medium size config files that have to be read through every few minutes - > and almost never change. Simple timestamp comparison would probably be enough > to decide whether some file has to be transmitted again or if the cached > version is up-to-date. > Is it currently possible to create a setup like this? Some part of what you mention above is being performed by the io-cache translator but there are other aspects that are yet to be implemented, for eg, longer term caching of read-only files. Do try it out and let us know how it works for you. -Shehjar > Would this be a neat future feature? >
