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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Leo Antonio <heiligerstein@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How does LVM-Cache work?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:46:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <512DD5E8.6020109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEZ+n-hGcgRPvc+Rx1co3G_Bd-n8mC+5LUhdkSqiz9PRdtt27Q@mail.gmail.com>

Dne 26.2.2013 19:44, Leo Antonio napsal(a):
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I'm willing to do research about second-level cache using SSDs and I think
> that the best way to do this is using LVM/Device Mapper, because other
> implementations are based on FUSE, virtualization layers, and others.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to develop a subsystem that will put hot blocks/PEs
> on SSDs-Cache, as well as group related blocks/PEs on cache automatically. Not
> simply put on SSD the most  used files or directories.
>
> The problem is that I could not find any documentation about DM or LVM to help
> my research and development.
>
> Could you point me to some documentation or what's the best way to accomplish
> this?

Look for all-caches branch for dm-cache target:
https://github.com/jthornber/linux-2.6/branches

My assumption is - it's most probably already developed and on its way for 
upstream inclusion.

Zdenek

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-27  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26 18:44 [linux-lvm] How does LVM-Cache work? Leo Antonio
2013-02-27  9:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2013-02-27 10:04 ` thornber
2013-02-27 18:30   ` Leo Antonio
2013-02-28  8:42     ` Greg Zapp
2013-02-28  9:58     ` thornber

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