Re: [dm-devel] [ceph-users] Local SSD cache for ceph on each compute node.

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Fisk
> >> > >> On 03/29/2016 04:35 PM, Nick Fisk wrote: > >>> One thing I picked up on when looking at dm-cache for doing caching > >>> with RBD's is that it wasn't really designed to be used as a > >>> writeback cache for new writes, as in how you would expect a > >>> traditional writeback cache to wor

Re: [dm-devel] [ceph-users] Local SSD cache for ceph on each compute node.

2016-03-30 Thread Nick Fisk
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Ric Wheeler > Sent: 29 March 2016 14:40 > To: Nick Fisk ; 'Sage Weil' > Cc: ceph-us...@lists.ceph.com; device-mapper development de...@redhat.com> > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Local SSD cache

Re: [dm-devel] [ceph-users] Local SSD cache for ceph on each compute node.

2016-03-29 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/29/2016 04:53 PM, Nick Fisk wrote: -Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Ric Wheeler Sent: 29 March 2016 14:40 To: Nick Fisk ; 'Sage Weil' Cc: ceph-us...@lists.ceph.com; device-mapper development Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Local

Re: [dm-devel] [ceph-users] Local SSD cache for ceph on each compute node.

2016-03-29 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/29/2016 04:35 PM, Nick Fisk wrote: One thing I picked up on when looking at dm-cache for doing caching with RBD's is that it wasn't really designed to be used as a writeback cache for new writes, as in how you would expect a traditional writeback cache to work. It seems all the policies are