[Lustre-discuss] v1.8 manual question

[Daire Byrne]

----- "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 2009  12:28 +0100, Daire Byrne wrote:
> > I had a quick skim through the v1.8 Lustre manual and in section
> > 4.4 there is a mention of the --cachefor and --proxyfor options to
> > mkfs.lustre. I didn't think Lustre had such functionality yet? Are these
> > planned for a 1.8x release? How do they work exactly?
> 
> I don't believe we support these options at all, as I can't find any
> such options in the code.  I'll bring this up with our documentation
> team.

Yea I didn't think so. Were they even ever on a roadmap?

> > In the recent discussion of Lustre as root there was mention of
> > using FS-Cache for client read caching - how would this differ from the
> > --cachefor feature (could it do read caching?). We are quite interested
> > in using an NFS gateway to Lustre which would have local caching for
> > WAN operation so any client caching would be very beneficial to us.
> 
> I haven't heard any update on this feature, but AFAIK the fscache
> work is the only one progressing on this front today.

I haven't heard anything from the guy who was working on lustre + fscache so I can only assume that it is no longer being worked on. Shame.

Daire