From: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Anyone tried Flashcache with PostgreSQL?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:15:03 +0100
Message-ID: <4D6F4E07.3060609@tweakers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3aD4xBbxJG9+VhawNN0x2VN8qu853aiPhcXVU@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2-3-2011 16:29 Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have the hardware to test FlashCache with PostgreSQL?
>>
>> http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/29/FacebookFlashcache.aspx
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear how it performs ...
>
> It'd be a lot more interesting if it were a write-through cache rather
> than a write-back cache, wouldn't it?
That's what bcache tries to accomplish, both read and write cache.
It also appears to aim to be more widely usable, rather than the
relatively specific requirements the facebook variant is designed for.
http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
They seem to try and combine both the dedicated ZIL and L2ARC
functionality from ZFS in one block device based caching layer.
Best regards,
Arjen
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