Page 618 of the Planning/Admin manual has a section that discusses "What 

Devices Can Be Cached" with a sub-section of 'does not apply'.  DDR, bein
g 
the animal that it is, may not even want to get involved with anything 

resembling "caching" activity.

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:02:40 -0600, Phil Tully <tull...@optonline.net> 

wrote:

>I have over the past couple years specifically limited the use of mdcach
e 
in
>most systems because of the lack of sharing across virtual machines.  I 

have
>been experimenting with the enabling mdcache for a limited subset of mdi
sks
>which are used (r/o) across multiple guests.
>
>I have added miniopt mdc into the directory entry for the shared mdisk.
>
>I have issued set mdcache rdev for the devices the mdisks are defined on
.
>
>mdcache is on for the system , with 2000m min 9000m max (96G real storag
e)
>
>
>I start i/o to the mdisk using ddr, but I see no mdcache usage.
>
>Is there something that will block an mdisk from being cached?

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