Linus> Now, admittedly maybe the user-space deamon approach is
Linus> crap, and what we really want is to have some way to cache
Linus> network stuff on the disk directly from the kernel, ie just
Linus> implement a real mapping/page-indexed cachefs that people
Linus> could mount and use together with different network
Linus> filesystems.
Cachefs has been on our most wanted list for a while now in Linux
biocomputing.. Using NFS for huge datasets with cachefs on Solaris is
a breeze and Linux currently offers no alternative
(well... coda/intermezzo are close but no close enough). A general
purpose cachefs would be beautiful.
Patrick Audley
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