On Jun 22, 2012, at 3:53 PM, "Earle, Erik" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For actual hardware, our in-house datacenter only supports certain > configurations of hardware, none of which include being able to have a > dedicated physical disk as a raw device for cache configuration. > > My two options are: > 1) A logical partition of the main disk to use as the raw disk > 2) Move to VMs to get the raw disk on a separate virtual physical device > (which may end up on the same actual physical device) Why not just put the cache on the file system then? It will be less bad than going through a hyper visor... -- Leif > > > Are there any observations/recommendations regarding either of my options? > > > >
