Re: cachefs module for linux?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:28:30 +0100 (GMT)


On 8 Jun 1999, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:
> > Just allow NFS to use the standard Linux cache more efficiently via a
> > mount parameter and all should be well. cachefs is the wrong solution.
>
> "The standard Linux cache" does not survive reboots.
> And it doesn't allow disconnected operation either.
>
> CacheFS has more to it than performance.

Coda will do all of this stuff.

I don't know how well it performs, though.

Matthew.

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