hi david, thanks for the pointer. already reading the readme on the repo. it looks interesting - and i'd be keen to hear from any gluster guru's what their thoughts are on such a setup... regards, -paul On 29 September 2011 18:44, David Miller <david3d at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:32 PM, David Miller <david3d at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Couldn't you accomplish the same thing with flashcache? >> https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ >> > > I should expand on that a little bit. Flashcache is a kernel module > created by Facebook that uses the device mapper interface in Linux to > provide a ssd cache layer to any block device. > > What I think would be interesting is using flashcache with a pcie ssd as > the caching device. That would add about $500-$600 to the cost of each > brick node but should be able to buffer the active IO from the spinning > media pretty well. > > Somthing like this. > http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Drive-240GB-Express/dp/B0058RECUE or > something from FusionIO if you want something that's aimed more at the > enterprise. > -- > David > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110929/d2d4b617/attachment.htm>
