<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Apr 2006, at 12:46, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The various cluster file systems</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">may provide something more akin to this, but again, this doesn't</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">really cover SAN technologies -- not in any sort of a generic way.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Let me know if I'm missing something.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I think everyone asking is missing something.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>kernels cache, applications that use raw disk cache, SAN devices cache, I fail to see what you really are proposing and therefore I fail to see what value you are proposing?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Caching a SAN to local disk? usually my SANs are quite a bit faster than local disk, caching to memory? what does that buy you that the kernel/application caching gets you?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Artur</DIV></BODY></HTML>