We deployed with just putting the journal on an SSD directly, why would this 
not work for you?  Just wondering really :)

Thanks!

~Noah

> On Mar 23, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Brendan Moloney <molo...@ohsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I have been looking at the options for SSD caching for a bit now. Here is my 
> take on the current options:
> 
> 1) bcache - Seems to have lots of reliability issues mentioned on mailing 
> list with little sign of improvement.
> 
> 2) flashcache - Seems to be no longer (or minimally?) developed/maintained, 
> instead folks are working on the fork enhanceio.
> 
> 3) enhanceio - Fork of flashcache.  Dropped the ability to skip caching on 
> sequential writes, which many folks have claimed is important for Ceph OSD 
> caching performance. (see: https://github.com/stec-inc/EnhanceIO/issues/32)
> 
> 4) LVM cache (dm-cache) - There is now a user friendly way to use dm-cache, 
> through LVM.  Allows sequential writes to be skipped. You need a pretty 
> recent kernel.
> 
> I am going to be trying out LVM cache on my own cluster in the next few 
> weeks.  I will share my results here on the mailing list.  If anyone else has 
> tried it out I would love to hear about it.
> 
> -Brendan
> 
>> In a long term use I also had some issues with flashcache and enhanceio. 
>> I've noticed frequent slow requests.
>> 
>> Andrei
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