Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753965AbYLSNXb (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:23:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752906AbYLSNXW (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:23:22 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:39943 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752603AbYLSNXV (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:23:21 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20081219040952.GB7552@fieldses.org> References: <20081219040952.GB7552@fieldses.org> <7633.1229653644@redhat.com> <7A24DF798E223B4C9864E8F92E8C93EC01AAF3F8@SACMVEXC1-PRD.hq.netapp.com> To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Muntz, Daniel" , Andrew Morton , sfr@canb.auug.org.au, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steved@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, rwheeler@redhat.com Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:57 +0000 Message-ID: <10947.1229692977@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 585 Lines: 16 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Local disk cache was great for AFS back around 1992. Typical networks > > were 10 or 100Mbps (slower than disk access at the time), > > Would a disk cache on SSD make any sense? Seems like it'd change the > latency tradeoff. It could, as could using a battery backed RAM cache. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/