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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> is anybody out there using a good RAM+SSD caching system ahead of gluster storage?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> sorry if that came through twice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> im thinking about making the SSD one giant swap file then creating a very large ramdisk in virtual memory and using that as a
block level cache for parts and pieces of virtual machine disk images<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> then i think the memory managers would inherently play the role of storage tiering ie: keeping the hottest data in memory and
the coldest data on swap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> everything i have seen today has been setup as "consumer" ===> network ====> SSD cache ====> real disks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> but i'd like to actually do "consumer" ===> RAM+SSD cache ===> network ===> real disks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> i realize doing a virtual memory disk means the cache will be cleared on every reboot, and I'm ok with that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> i know this can be done with NFS and cachefilesd(fscache), but how could something be integrated into the native gluster clients?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> i'd prefer not to have to access gluster via NFS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><sonicrose> any feedback from this room is greatly appreciated, getting someone started to build managed HA cloud hosting</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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