[Gluster-devel] glusterfs as root filesystem

[Anand Avati]

Sort of. I did use that but I could never get it to actually cache anything.
> My reads never got quicker than the first one, no matter many times I
> called
> the same files... But specifically I've heard talk from people asking
> about
> using local storage for caching, which is not supported under the io-cache
> translator. So I would use that if it became available, and if not, I'll
> eventually have to figure out why io-cache isn't working.


On what files were you not getting the speedup? on executables? or others?
if one shot of activity was exceeding the default cache-size value (32M)
then you may have to tune your priority and cache-size parameters to get any
caching effect.

avati


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