Introduction to Client Side Caching in Ceph

Explore the evolution of client-side caching in Ceph, a unified distributed storage system, in this 20-minute conference talk from USENIX Vault '20. Delve into various caching policies for Ceph block storage (RBD) and examine the design details of upcoming feature work, including a write-back cache implementation on SSDs and persistent memory. Gain insights from Intel's Mahati Chamarthy on how caching enhances performance in distributed software and learn about the significant role it plays in Ceph's user-space development.