hi david,<div><br></div><div>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...</div>
<div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-paul</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 September 2011 18:44, David Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david3d@gmail.com">david3d@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:32 PM, David Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david3d@gmail.com" target="_blank">david3d@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Couldn't you accomplish the same thing with flashcache? <a href="https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/" target="_blank">https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/</a><br></div></div></blockquote>
</div><div><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Somthing like this. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Drive-240GB-Express/dp/B0058RECUE" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Drive-240GB-Express/dp/B0058RECUE</a> or something from FusionIO if you want something that's aimed more at the enterprise.<br>
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