<div dir="ltr"><div>You could use something like CacheFS for client side caching, but this will always be a read only cache.<br><br></div>The newer versions of CacheCade can do write caching which could be pretty useful for speeding up RAID6 on the servers. Pretty sure there are other options to do write caching on the server (like Bcache).<br>
<div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 02/06/2013 05:07 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Brock Palen<<a href="mailto:brockp@umich.edu">brockp@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I have been thinking about this. DDN's SFX looks like it might be able to do this at the block level. I am trying to get them to think that they should do this.<br>
> Yes, supposedly it'll just be a firmware upgrade and addition of SSD's<br>
> into their storage units. Then Gridscalar (gpfs) or exascalar (lustre)<br>
> will be able to take advantage of it without knowing anything about<br>
> it.<br>
<br>
</div>So then these SSDs would reside on the DDN appliance? I was thinking of<br>
client-side caching.<br>
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--<br>
Prentice<br>
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