linux-kernel - Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

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Message-ID: <10947.1229692977@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:22:57 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, "Muntz, Daniel" <Dan.Muntz@...app.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steved@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, rwheeler@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> 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
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