Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:36:59 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Buffer Cache Does Not Support Mirroring |
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Which is exactly what we have concluded. We probably should provide some input into 2.5 for our needs. We would be happy to put in the subsystems we require. The benefit to Linux would be a built in fault tolerant redirector within the cache (which is useful for this and distributed support -- time to start thinking about this). This would allow all of the Linux file systems to support multi-segmented mirroring and fault tolerant failover without the RAID drivers. Netware uses a partition based mirroring scheme that will work on anything that uses a partition, including Netware. This could be easily configured for all of the file systems on Linux.
Jeff
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Please advise on these cache issues. > > Basically, the buffercache is going to be reduced hardly more > than an I/O mapping layer (with probably some extras for > transactions and RAID). Caching will have to be done in the > page cache. > > But that's something for kernel version 2.5 (when we'll probably > overhaul most of the cache stuff). > > In the meantime, it would probably be best to use either your > own buffer.c or accept the fact that it's not going to be as > efficient as you'd like it to be. > > regards, > > Rik > -- > The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network > of people. That is its real strength. > -- > work at: http://www.reseau.nl/ > home at: http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/
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