Hi Ulrich,
you maybe misunderstood my purpose, i am not going to do caching on iSCSI
transport layer.
you are right that  iSCSI devices can be cached just as normal block
devices are.
indeed a normal block device can be cached using memory to cache the hot
data.
but iscsi driver has differences with normal block device, after all it's a
remote disk.
so i want to use a normal block device to act as a cache disk for iscsi
device besides using the normal memory cache.
do you have any suggestions?
thank you!

2016-10-10 21:43 GMT+08:00 Ulrich Windl <[email protected]>:

> The iSCSI transport layer is definitely the wrong place to do caching!
> iSCSI devices are cached just as normal block devices are (unless you use
> direct I/O).
>
> >>> ??? <[email protected]> schrieb am 10.10.2016 um 11:46 in Nachricht
> <[email protected]>:
>
> >
> > does iSCSI protocol itself or open-source iSCSI implementations like
> > open-iscsi have a cache scheme?
> >
> > since an iscsi initiator may access the same data many times, it does not
> > have to get the data from remote target every time via network. so i am
> > wondering if iSCSI provides a scheme by which clients can use a local
> disk
> > to cache the hot data so that when the accessed data is stored in the
> local
> > cache disk initiator can directly get the data from local disk, just
> like a
> > web browser cache does. does anyone konw about this?
> >
> > how can i implement this? thank you.
> >
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