Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhang
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 13:28 -0500, Ming Zhao wrote: > On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > like to see this idea but any similarity with > > http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? > > > > STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this > > dm

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhao
On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: like to see this idea but any similarity with http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this dm-cache. I like the idea of STICS, an efficient bridge between SCSI and

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-01 Thread Ming Zhang
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:55 -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 11/27/06, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a > > > write-back > > > or write-throug