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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2006 05:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new class / geom_cache / request for comments
Message-ID:  <20060706123405.26664.qmail@web30314.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <44ACFEAB.1020306@centtech.com>

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--- Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote:
> Ok, I understand now.  I could see this being useful for fsck's also.  I 
> wonder if it's possible to have the cache distributed across multiple 
> machines? (just out of curiosity)
> 
Hmm...

In a read-only setting it should work with geom_gate:
server A <--geom_gate--> (network-clone with geom_cache 1, ...)

Since network-clones are not notified about BIO_WRITE commands of other such
clones, the geom_cache would become inconsistent eventually...

-Arne


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