[Gluster-devel] Cache Translator Questions

[Dan Parsons]

I would very much love to have the feature described below  
(authoritative repository), using gluster as basically an automatic,  
real-time rsync


Dan Parsons


On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Martin Fick wrote:

> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Basavanagowda Kanur <gowda at zresearch.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Martin Fick
>> <mogulguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> 1B) If memory only, are there any plans for a file
>> based cache?
>>
>> Yes, we have plans for file based cache in our future
>> release.
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> It sounds like this would simply require adding local disk cache  
> read/writting to the translator without requiring any changes to the  
> way coherency is maintained?  Seems like it might be well worth it.   
> If it is as simple as I am thinking, with disk caching, clients  
> could maintain huge local caches and likely dramatically improve  
> performance.
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> These days clients may even have enough storage to cache an entire  
> filesystem making the cluster servers simply authoritative  
> repositories.  If this were the case, perhaps networks could be  
> optimized for latency instead of throughput without suffering much  
> of a FS throughput performance penalty since most large reads would  
> come from the local cache.  Just some random thoughts...
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> Thanks for your replies,
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> -Martin
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