[Pvfs2-developers] Review: experimental readcaching code

[Murali Vilayannur]

Hi RobL,

> Hi Murali. I think for ROMIO we want the file system to get out of the
> way. ROMIO can exploit MPI-IO semantics to do reasonable caching on
> its own.  Ok, we don't do this now, but it's possible.  As long as
> it's easy for ROMIO to turn off any "help" from the underlying file
> system, we'll be ok.

I agree. I just don't want bugs to show in mpi-io/netcdf programs if
they are run through the vfs interface of pvfs2.. that's my only
concern :)
Thanks,
Murali

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> Rob Latham
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