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Andrew Savchenko <bircoph <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > > 3. Performance. This is natural to strive to get full speed |
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> > https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ |
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> While bcache is a great technology, this is not what I need here. |
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> On this box NVMe will be the only storage and / will be placed |
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> there. All other data will be NFS-accessible over 1 Gbps link. |
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Yep, I hear about how wonderful it is from many performance oriented folks. |
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NVMe is certainly a positive development for SSD. |
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> I have thoughts about caching NFS using filescached, but limited |
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> durability of the drive (400 TBW warranty for 512 GB size) restrains |
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> me here. Probably I'll use it for caching only in exceptional cases |
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> (e.g. slow remote mounts like AFS), but with 64 GB RAM I doubt I'll |
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> need additional NVMe-based caching, at least for now, with time |
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> this may change of course. |
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Well, to be truthful, I was hoping your application was a speed boost |
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for clusters. Particularly a gentoo based cluster with some NVMe boards |
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on workstations that lend their excess power to a local cluster. Lots of |
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folks are building in house clusters where technical users have monster |
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workstations and use those excess workstation resources to boost the local |
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cluster. That's kinda my twist (lxqt on the desktop) for single (big |
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problem/data) on gentoo with mesos clusters. Do drop me a line, should that |
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type of usage permeate your thought_cycles..... |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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arigatou, |
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James |
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