[pve-devel] sheepdog cache settings

[Dietmar Maurer]

Seems they still work on object cache:

http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog-users/2012-July/000110.html

So I guess in future it is useful to run a gateway which points to fast SSD to use as cache.

- Dietmar

> (also for writeback, we need to start the gateway daemon with -w option)
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> For a pure sheep gateway, we only need it if storage daemons are external.
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> with sheep storage daemon, we can use them as gateway + storage.
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> But,I'm not sure, if a disc fail, we need to restart the sheep daemon, so it can
> break the communication (some seconds) between kvm guests and the
> sheep cluster.
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> Maybe the sheepdog mailing can give you more infos ?
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